Salal, Chad

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Salal ({{langx|ar|سالل}}) is a town in Chad, lying {{convert|380|km|mi}}  north of N'Djamena on the road to Faya-Largeau. Salal is the second largest city after Moussoro in Bahr el Gazel Region.

A garrison was once at Salal during the conflict with Libya in 1978.{{cite book|last1=Burr|first1=Millard|last2=Collins|first2=Robert O.|title=Darfur: the long road to disaster|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F95Zb2QhS4EC&pg=PA123|accessdate=19 January 2012|date=1 February 2008|publisher=Markus Wiener Publishers|isbn=978-1-55876-470-5|page=123}} On 15 April 1978, FROLINAT forces, led by Goukouni Oueddei, took Salal before marching south to the Chadian capital, N'Djamena.{{cite book|author1-link=Michael Brecher|author2-link=Jonathan Wilkenfeld|last1=Brecher|first1=Michael|last2=Wilkenfeld|first2=Jonathan|title=A study of crisis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GjY7aV_6FPwC&pg=PA87|accessdate=19 January 2012|date=November 1997|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=978-0-472-10806-0|page=87}}