Qayqab
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|other_name = القيقب
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|subdivision_name1 = Cyrenaica
|subdivision_type2 = District
|subdivision_name2 = Derna
|population_as_of = 2006
|population_total = 7,297
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Qayqab{{GEOnet2|32FA8807CF923774E0440003BA962ED3|Al Qayqab (Approved) }}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (also Ghoigah,{{GEOnet2|32FA8807CF903774E0440003BA962ED3|Ghoigah (Variant)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Minţaqat al Qayqab,{{GEOnet2|32FA8807CF8F3774E0440003BA962ED3|Minţaqat al Qayqab (Variant)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency El-Ghégab,{{GEOnet2|32FA8807CF913774E0440003BA962ED3|El-Ghégab (Variant)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency El Gaigab, El Gheighab{{Cite book |last=M. M. Buru |url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/9679/1/9679_6472.PDF |title=A geographical study of the eastern Jebel Akhdar, Cyrenaica, |publisher=Durham theses, Durham University |year=1960 |pages=156 |language=en}}) is a town in the Derna District in northeastern Libya. The town is located on the northeast side of the Akhdar Mountains, south of Al Abraq and Al Abraq Airport and Faydiya lies to the southwest, connected by road.
History
Qayqab was an ancient village, being identified with the Roman Agabis.Johnson, Douglas L. (1973) Jabal al-Ak̲h̲ḍar, Cyrenaica: an historical geography of settlement and livelihood University of Chicago, Chicago, page 115, {{OCLC|727440}} It was a market village where goods from the coast were traded for animals and other products provided by the Cyrenaican herdering nomads.Johnson, Douglas L. (1973) Jabal al-Ak̲h̲ḍar, Cyrenaica: an historical geography of settlement and livelihood University of Chicago, Chicago, page 90, {{OCLC|727440}} The village was the site of an Ottoman fort or citadel built in 1852 by Abu Bakr Bu Hadus, chief of the Bara'sa tribe.(1968) "al Gaigab" Libya Antiqua Volumes 5, page 217
The town grew from the village in the 1970s when the government used oil money to supply housing for the herding nomads of the area.Behnke, Roy H. (1980) "The Process of Sedentarization in Khoolaan and Gaigab" The herders of Cyrenaica: ecology, economy, and kinship among the bedouin of eastern Libya University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, page 80, {{ISBN|0-252-00729-8}}
Prior to the 2007 administrative reorganization, Al Qayqab was part of Al Qubah District.
The name Qayqab translates in Arabic to "maple tree."[Syrian Maple — American University of Beirut]. Retrieved December 20, 2021.
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