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Amazigh have been present throughout the entire history of the country. For most of its history, Libya has been subjected to varying degrees of foreign control, from Europe, 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 Modern era.
Libya, [b] officially the State of Libya, [c] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest, as well as maritime borders with Greece, Italy and Malta to the north.
The green flag of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.The colour green, represented Islam and Gaddafi's Third International Theory, which was outlined in The Green Book. The Arab Liberation Flag used under the Federation of Arab Republics was based on the flag first used by Gamal Abdel Nasser and used by Gaddafi's regime prior to the Jamahiriya.
The difficulty of maintaining control of Libya plagued the Fatimids, as it had almost every other authority preceding them. At the beginning of the 11th century, Buluggin ibn Ziri was installed as the Fatimid governor. It was also in this time that the Cyrenaica became a basis for pirates who often acted as privateers for the Fatimids. [3]
Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6. Ludovico Micara (2008). "Ottoman Tripoli: a Mediterranean Medina". The City in the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-9004162402. Ali Irhuma Abubrig (2016). "Urban Growth and Sustainability in Tripoli, Libya". University Bulletin. 18 (2). Libya: Al Zawiya ...
Compared with the history of Egypt, historians know little about the history of Libya, as there are few surviving written records. Information on ancient Libya comes from archaeological evidence and historic sources written by Egyptian scribes, as well as the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines, and later from Arabs of Medieval times.
The Libyan genocide, also known in Libya as Shar (Arabic: شر, lit. 'Evil'), [1] was the genocide of Libyan Arabs and the systematic destruction of Libyan culture during and after the Second Italo-Senussi War between 1929 and 1934.
The Battle of Zliten followed an unsuccessful uprising in Zliten, Libya, during the Libyan Civil War.It began on 21 July 2011 when elements of the National Liberation Army, part of the anti-Gaddafi forces seeking to overthrow the government of Muammar Gaddafi, moved into the city of Zliten after struggling over the course of the past several months to extend the frontline westward from Misrata ...