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Protest in Belgrade, Serbia on 26 March 2011 against military intervention in Libya. Protest in Minneapolis, United States on 2 April 2011 against US military intervention in Libya. The military intervention was criticized, both at the time and subsequently, on a variety of grounds.
Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa and the sixteenth largest country in the world. It is on the Mediterranean with Egypt to the east, Tunisia to the northwest, Algeria to the west, Niger and Chad to the south, and Sudan to the southeast. Although the oil discoveries of the 1960s have brought immense wealth, at the time of its ...
Nearly 40 minor and major railways stations were built in Libya by the Italians. The biggest and most important being located in Italian Tripoli. In 1965, the last remaining stations in Benghazi and Suluq were closed. No Italian-era stations are currently active. Fiat train "Littorina" at Tripoli Station. Benghazi Railway Station in 1930.
Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business district (CBD). Downtowns typically contain a small percentage of a city's employment.
This article lists the heads of state of Libya since the country's independence in 1951. Libya is in a tumultuous state since the start of the Arab Spring -related Libyan Crisis in 2011; the crisis resulted in the collapse of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the killing of Muammar Gaddafi , amidst the First Civil War and the foreign military ...
Battle of Sirte (2016) / 31.2072; 16.5917. The Battle of Sirte during the Second Libyan Civil War started in the spring of 2016, in the Sirte District of Libya, between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the loyalist forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) backed by the United States.
ʽAziziya ( / əˈziːziːə /; Arabic: العزيزية al-ʿAzīziyyah / al-ʻAzīzīyah / al-ʿazīzīya ), sometimes spelled El Azizia, is a small town and capital of the Jafara district in northwestern Libya, 41 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of the capital Tripoli. From 1918 to 1922, it was the capital of the Tripolitanian Republic, the ...
The national flag of Libya (Arabic: علم ليبيا ,Ealam Libia) was originally introduced in 1951, following the creation of the Kingdom of Libya.It was designed by Omar Faiek Shennib and approved by King Idris Al Senussi who comprised the UN delegation representing the three regions of Cyrenaica, Fezzan, and Tripolitania at UN unification discussions.