List of awards and honours bestowed upon Muammar Gaddafi

This is a comprehensive list of awards, honours and other recognitions bestowed on Muammar Gaddafi.

Honours[]

National honours[]

Award or decoration		Country	Date	Place	Note	Ref
	Order of the Republic	Libya	1 September 1969			[1][2][3]
	Order of Courage	Libya	1 September 1969		Military order, awarded to members of the armed forces active during and following the 1 September Revolution.[4]	[5][6][7]
	Order of the Grand Conqueror	Libya	1 September 1969			[8][9][10]

Foreign honours[]

Award or decoration		Country	Date	Place	Note	Ref
	Honorary Member of the Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika	Malta	5 December 1975	Valletta	Former highest decoration of the Republic of Malta, now second highest honour. Revoked.	[11][12]
	Order of the Stara Planina	Bulgaria	17 June 1978	Sofia	Bulgarian highest order of merit.	[13]
	Grand Cordon of the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Poland	Poland	June 1978	Warsaw		[14]
	Collar of the Order of the White Lion	Czechoslovakia	1982	Prague	Czechoslovakian highest order.	[15]
	Hero of the Republic	North Korea	1982	Pyongyang	Second highest title of North Korea.	[16]
	Order of the National Flag, First Class	North Korea	1982	Pyongyang	Second highest order of North Korea.	[16]
	Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic	Nigeria	11 May 1997	Abuja	Nigerian highest honour.	[17][18]
	Grand Cross of the Order of Good Hope	South Africa	29 October 1997	Tripoli	Former South African highest order.	[19][20]
	Great Chain of Badr	Saudi Arabia	3 June 1999	Sirte	Highest honour of Saudi Arabia.	[21]
	Great Star of the Order of the Yugoslav Star	Yugoslavia	26 October 1999	Tripoli	Second highest order of merit in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.	[22]
	Collar of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise	Ukraine	11 October 2003		Ukrainian third highest order.	[23][24]
	Collar of the National Order of Merit	Malta	8 February 2004		Republic of Malta highest order. Revoked.	[11][12]
	Order of Katonga	Uganda	20 May 2004	Tripoli	Ugandan highest military order.	[25][26]
	Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky	Ukraine	4 April 2008			[27][28]
		Gambia	22 July 2009	Banjul	Gambian highest decoration.	[29]
	Grand Collar of the Order of the Liberator	Venezuela	28 September 2009	Isla Margarita	Former Venezuelan highest distinction.	[30][31]

Honorary degrees[]

•  Sudan: University of Khartoum Honorary doctorate, 1996 (revoked on 7 March 2011).^[32]
•  South Korea: Myongji University Honorary doctorate, 29 March 2000.^[33]
•  Algeria: University of Algiers Honorary doctorate, 27 March 2005.^[34]
•  Serbia: Megatrend University Honorary doctorate, March 2007.^[35][36]
•  Tunisia: Carthage University-National Institute of Applied Science and Technology Honorary doctorate in Arabic and Islamic Civilisation, 12 October 2008.^[37]
•  Belarus: Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics Honorary doctorate, 2010.^[38]

Eponyms[]

Gaddafi National Mosque in Kampala, Uganda.

• Gaddafi National Mosque, the biggest mosque in Kampala, Uganda.
• Gaddafi Mosque, in Dodoma, Tanzania.^[39]
• Gaddafi Mosque, in Freetown, Sierra Leone.^[40]
• Gaddafi Mosque, in Kigali, Rwanda.^[41]
• Gadaffi Barracks, an Ugandan Army military base in Jinja, Uganda.^[42]
• Gaddafi Stadium, the largest cricket stadium in Pakistan, situated in Lahore. The complex also has a mosque and a bus station named after Gaddafi.
• Gadaffi Hockey Stadium, the biggest field hockey stadium in the world, located in Lahore, Pakistan.
• Gaddafi Soccer Stadium, a soccer stadium in Lahore, Pakistan.
• Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Associations, an international NGO.
• Gaddafi Gardens, a garden in Paola, Malta (renamed Mediterranean Garden in 2016)^[43]

Other honours[]

• Gaddafi was invested by an assembly of African monarchs and chieftains with the title "King of Kings" of Africa in 2008.^[44]

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