Gaddafi
Muammar al-Gaddafi, often transliterated Gaddafi, was a Libyan political leader who ruled Libya from a 1969 military coup until his overthrow and death in 2011. Born in 1942 near Sirte, he joined the Libyan Army after studying at military institutions. On September 1, 1969, he led a coup that toppled King Idris I and established the Libyan Arab Republic, which he later described as the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
Gaddafi promoted a revolutionary ideology centered on his Green Book and the concept of a direct democracy
In foreign policy, Gaddafi pursued anti-imperialist and pan-Arabist goals and supported various revolutionary movements and militant
The 2011 Libyan Civil War, sparked by widespread protests and a NATO military intervention, ended Gaddafi’s