 Tajura is also known to be the most anti-Gaddafi district in Tripoli and had high casualties in the Libyan revolution,And there's a famous sentence people say it about tajura which is (tajura didn't see omar).The Ottoman Turks established a base at Tajura in 1531.Under the command of Hayreddin Barbarossa, the site was selected for its proximity to Tripoli which had come under the Knights of Malta in 1530 when Charles V of Spain, as King of Sicily, had given them Tripoli, Gozo and Malta.