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  1. History of Libya

    Libya's history involves its rich mix of ethnic groups, including the indigenous Berbers/Amazigh people. 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. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    The history of Libya comprises six distinct periods: Ancient Libya, the Roman era, the Islamic era, Ottoman rule, Italian rule, and the Modern era. Prehistoric and Berber Libya. Prehistoric Libyan rock paintings in Tadrart Acacus reveal a Sahara once lush in vegetation and wildlife. Tens of thousands of years ago, the ...
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  4. britannica.com

    5 days agoLibya, country located in North Africa comprising three historical regions: Tripolitania in the northwest, Cyrenaica in the east, and Fezzan in the southwest. Although Libya is largely desert and poor in natural resources, oil has been an important commodity in its economy since its discovery in the late 1950s.
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    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.
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  7. britannica.com

    5 days agoLibya - Ancient, Ottoman, Independence: This discussion focuses on Libya since the 18th century. For a treatment of earlier periods and of the country in its regional context, see North Africa. Largely desert with some limited potential for urban and sedentary life in the northwest and northeast, Libya has historically never been heavily populated or a power centre.
  8. assets.cambridge.org

    A History of Modern LibyA second edition dirk Vandewalle is one of only a handful of scholars who have made frequent visits to Libya over the last four decades. His formidable knowledge of the region is encapsulated in his history of Libya, which was first published in 2006. The book - based on original research
  9. cambridge.org

    In the wake of the civil war and Qadhafi's demise, the time is ripe for a new edition of Dirk Vandewalle's classic history of Libya. The book, which was originally published in 2006, traces the country's history back to the 1900s, through the Italian occupation in the early twentieth century, the Sanusi monarchy and, thereafter, to the revolution of 1969 and the accession of Qadhafi.
  10. cambridge.org

    1 The Centre for Libyan Studies has been providing a continous bibliography on the history of Libya, especially in its journal, Mjallat al-Buhuth al-Tarikhiyyah, which started publication in January 1979.The reader will find the following bibliographies of great value for this period: Annuare d'Afrique du Nord: Algerie, Maroc, Tunisie, Libye, Aix-En-Provence, 1962-: and the more recently ...
  11. oxfordre.com

    The modern Libyan state began to take shape within the Ottoman Empire from the mid-16th century onward. Libya's path to independent statehood was violently interrupted in 1911 with the onset of an Italian conquest. Rome's efforts to annex Libya through settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing were in turn disrupted by World War II.
  12. cambridge.org

    The history of Libya in the twentieth century represents, even by Middle Eastern standards, an extraordinary odyssey: from Ottoman backwater to Italian colony; from conservative monarchy to revolutionary regime; from rags to riches; and from brinkmanship to a grudging and still unfolding statesmanship. For most of the century, the inhabitants ...
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