Msus or Zawiyat Msus (), also Masous is a village in eastern Libya located southeast of Benghazi, and from Suluq on the same direction.Salem Mohammed ez Zawam, “Mu’jam al Amakin al Jughrafiya fi Libia”, Dar wa Maktabat ash Sha’b, Misratah, 2005, p.75. There is another road linking her with Charruba (about to the north).
Msus was a site of several battles between Italian colonial forces and Libyan resistance fighters, such as the one that took place on March3, 1914, after the Battle of Sceleildima.Kalifa Tillisi, “Mu’jam Ma’arik Al Jihad fi Libia1911-1931”, Dar Ath Thaqafa, Beirut, Lebanon, 1973, p.263.
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