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Hotel Tobruk

hotel in Tobruk, Libya

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ5912039 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hotel Tobruk is a historic hotel in Tobruk, Libya.

History

The hotel Tobruk was built in 1937. It was located at the entrance of the port, the last stop before the Egyptian border.

It provided shelter for Erwin Rommel during the Siege of Tobruk in World War II.

Description

The hotel Tobruk had 20 rooms and an air-conditioning system.

Editorial summary

“Hotel Tobruk” enters the record as hotel in Tobruk, Libya. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hotel, Tobruk and hotel can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1937-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hotel, Tobruk and hotel.
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Why this record matters

“Hotel Tobruk” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hotel, Tobruk and hotel provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5912039. Authority coordinates are 32.080, 23.972. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hotel Tobruk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.