Muammar Gaddafi

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Born June 7, 1942 · Qasr Abu Hadi, Italian Libya

Died October 20, 2011

Also known as Muammar Gadaffi · Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi · Muammar al Qaddafi

Biography

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya as a dictator from 1969 until his overthrow by Libyan rebel forces in 2011 during the First Libyan Civil War. He came to power through a bloodless military coup, first becoming Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977, Secretary General of the General People's Congress from 1977 to 1979, and then the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1979 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Gaddafi later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.

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Awards & recognition

Order of the Liberator · 2009
Order of the Republic of The Gambia · 2009
Golden Key of Madrid · 2007
Korean Buddhist Human Rights Award · 2003
Order of the Star of Romania · 1999

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Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star · 1999
National Order of Chad · 1997
Order of Good Hope · 1997
Order of the White Lion · 1982
Friendship Order
Grand Cross of the National Order of Mali
Great Chain of Badr
Hero of the Republic
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
National Maltese Order of Merit
National Order of Benin
National Order of Mali
National Order of Merit
National Order of Niger
National Order of the Leopard
Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 3rd class
Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, 1st class
Order of Courage
Order of Friendship
Order of José Martí
Order of Katonga
Order of Merit of Benin
Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class
Order of recognition
Order of Stara Planina
Order of the 7th November 1987
Order of the Federal Republic
Order of the Grand Conqueror
Order of the National Flag
Order of the National Flag, 1st class
Order of the Republic
Order of the Star of Palestine
Order of the State of Palestine
Order of the Tribute to the Republic
Order of the Umayyads
Order of the Yugoslav Star
Ribbon bar of the Kagera River Medal
Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania
Supreme Order of the Renaissance