Acroma
Acroma is a town in northeastern Libya in Butnan District, about 28 km west of Tobruk.
On April 17, 1917, the Treaty of Acroma, was signed by the Italian government and Mohammed Idris. The pact was an ambiguous ceasefire recognizing a de facto authority for Idris in Cyrenaica, while not excluding the overall Italian territorial sovereignty.During the North African Campaign of World War II, the area was the scene of heavy fighting on several separate occasions. Acroma was captured from Axis forces on December 10, 1941, by the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade.
Later, an intersection of two Bedouin paths south of Acroma, assumed strategic importance, and became known by the Allied codename Knightsbridge. The area was the focus of the Battle of Knightsbridge, during June 1942.
Following the war's end, Knightsbridge War Cemetery, containing Allied war dead, was built north of Acroma, near the main road linking Tobruk and Gazala.
