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Khoms or Al Khums is a city and port in Murqub District on the Mediterranean coast of Libya with an estimated population of around 202,000. The population at the 1984 census was 38,174. Between 1983 and 1995 it was the administrative center of the Khoms District. The city has Phoenician and Roman roots and became the capital of the Roman province of Africa in the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus.[citation needed] Approximately 3 km (1.9 mi) to the east is the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna. During the Libyan civil war, rebels from Misrata entered the city without any resistance as the city already fell on 20 August before moving on to Tripoli. Khoms has a plant for making Concrete sleepers, one of two in Libya.