Bayda or Elbeida, known as Beda Littoria under Italian colonial rule, is a commercial and industrial city in northern Cyrenaica, eastern Libya. With a population of 250,000 people, Bayda is the 4th-largest city in Libya after Tripoli, Benghazi and Misrata. It is the capital city of the Jabal al Akhdar district.
Country: Libya
Region: Cyrenaica
Settled: Balagrae: c. early 1st millennium BCE · az-Zāwiyat al-Bayḍāʾ: 1840 · Beda Littoria: 1933 · Bayda/Elbeida: 1950s