Msūs

Msus lies in the dry country southeast of Benghazi, beyond the western slopes of the Jebel Akhdar. Here the fertile Mediterranean uplands give way to more open plains and sparse vegetation. To the west the coastal plain extends along the Gulf of Sirte, with salt flats in its enclosed depressions. The contrast between the hills and the desert fringe has long marked the landscape of western Cyrenaica.