bordering Libya at the Western Desert. The Siwi language, a Berber language, is still spoken in the area by around 21,000 people. Their Ancient Egyptian...
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Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east...
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Sea north of the African coast of ancient Libya, i.e. Cyrenaica, and Marmarica (the coast of what is now eastern Libya and western Egypt, between Tobruk...
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mythology. She personified the land of Ancient Libya in North Africa, from which the name of modern-day Libya originated. Libya, like Ethiopia or Scythia was one...
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Cyrenaica (redirect from Libya Superior)
the city of Cyrene), is the eastern region of Libya. Cyrenaica includes all of the eastern part of Libya between the 16th and 25th meridians east, including...
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Asia, and Africa. The history of Libya comprises six distinct periods: Ancient Libya, the Roman era, the Islamic era, Ottoman rule, Italian rule, and the...
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and Libya. This name derived from a territory known as Ancient Libya. (It was not until 1934 that former Ottoman Tripolitania became known as Libya.) In...
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Libya or Libyan may refer to: Libya, a country in north Africa Ancient Libya, a general term often used to refer to Africa in ancient times Italian Libya...
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sometimes anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greek colony and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in northeastern Libya in North Africa. It was part of the...
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time through contact with others like ancient Egyptian religion such as Isis which was worshipped in eastern Libya, or borrowed during antiquity from the...
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List of Libyans something of or related to Ancient Libya Libyan Arabic, a variety of the Arabic language (see also Languages of Libya) Libyan cuisine...
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capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.183 million people in 2023. It is located in the northwest of Libya on the edge of the desert...
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Put (biblical figure) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
(or Phut) is used in the Bible for Ancient Libya, but a few scholars proposed the Land of Punt known from Ancient Egyptian annals. Epiphanius writes:...
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North Africa during classical antiquity (redirect from Ancient North Africa)
divided roughly into the history of Egypt in the east, the history of ancient Libya in the middle and the history of Numidia and Mauretania in the west...
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Benghazi (redirect from Benghazi, Libya)
(/bɛnˈɡɑːzi/) (lit. Son of [the] Ghazi) is the second-most-populous city in Libya as well as the largest city in Cyrenaica, with an estimated population of...
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Libu (category Ancient Libya)
Libu (Ancient Egyptian: rbw; also transcribed Rebu, Libo, Lebu, Lbou, Libou) were an Ancient Libyan tribe of Berber origin, from which the name Libya derives...
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Marmarica (redirect from Libya Inferior)
Marmarica (Ancient Greek: Μαρμαρική, Arabic: مراقيه, romanized: Maraqiyah) in ancient geography was a littoral area in Ancient Libya, located between...
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Garamantes (category Ancient Libya)
century BC. Herodotus includes the Garamantes in his description of the ancient Libyan tribes, describing them as "a very great nation" who herded cattle and...
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Hyperborea (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Greeks proceeded to write of Hyperborea as a place that existed in ancient Libya somewhere within or between the Atlas ranges of North Africa ,as that...
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This is a list of notable people from Libya. Callimachus, ancient poet and librarian Philostephanus, Hellenistic writer Eugammon of Cyrene, flourished...
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The area of North Africa which has been known as Libya since 1911 was under Roman domination between 146 BC and 672 AD (even if in the meantime it was...
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Lotus-eaters (category Ancient Libyans)
5th century BC, was sure that they still existed in his day in coastal Libya: A promontory jutting out into the sea from the country of the Gindanes...
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Meshwesh (category Ancient Libya)
The Meshwesh (often abbreviated in ancient Egyptian as Ma) was an ancient Libyan tribe, of Berber origin along with other groups like Libu and Tehenu/Tjemehu...
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Necropolis of Cyrene (category Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Libya)
The Necropolis of Cyrene is a necropolis located between Cyrene, Libya and the ancient port of Apollonia, at the western slope of the Wadi Haleg Shaloof...
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features on their chest. These were at first described as inhabitants of ancient Libya or the Nile system (Aethiopia). Later traditions confined their habitat...
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The Cinyps (Ancient Greek: Κίνυψ) or Cinyphus (Κίνυφος), was a small river in ancient Libya, and the site of a Greek colony of the same name, founded...
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Triton (mythology) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
messenger or herald for the god Poseidon. Triton of Lake Tritonis of ancient Libya is a namesake mythical figure that appeared and aided the Argonauts...
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North Africa Ancient Egypt Ancient Libya Nubia Rauso Aromata Barbaria Macrobia Aethiopia Land of Punt Kingdom of Kush Kingdom of Aksum Ancient Somali city-states...
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Tobruk (redirect from Tobruk, Libya)
romanized: Ṭubruq; also transliterated as Tobruch and Tubruk) is a port city on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It is the capital...
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activity, linking the plant to sexuality and love). Silver coins from the ancient Libya of the 6th to 5th centuries BC bear images strongly reminiscent of the...
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