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Leptis Magna. / 32.63917°N 14.29056°E / 32.63917; 14.29056. Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean . Established as a Punic settlement prior to 500 BC, [2] the city experienced significant ...
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 ...
Map of Libya Tripoli, capital of Libya Sabratha Misurata Derna Tobruk Sirte Ghadames Tajura Ubari. This is a list of the 100 largest populated places in Libya.Some places in the list could be considered suburbs or neighborhoods of some large cities in the list, so this list is not definitive.
Cyrene, also 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 Pentapolis, an important group of five cities in the region, and gave the area its classical and early modern name Cyrenaica . Cyrene lies on a ridge of the Jebel Akhdar ...
Libya is the fourth-most water-stressed country in the world. The Libyan Desert, which covers most of Libya, is one of the most arid and sun-baked places on earth. [60] In places, decades may pass without seeing any rainfall at all, and even in the highlands rainfall seldom happens, once every 5–10 years.
There are five World Heritage Sites in Libya, with a further three on the tentative list. [3] The first three sites in Libya were added to the list in 1982 and the most recent one in 1986. [3] All five sites are listed due to their cultural significance. Since 2016, all five sites have been listed as endangered because of the instability due to ...
The Libyan Desert (not to be confused with the Libyan Sahara) is a geographical region filling the northeastern Sahara Desert, from eastern Libya to the Western Desert of Egypt and far northwestern Sudan. On medieval maps, its use predates today's Sahara, and parts of the Libyan Desert include the Sahara's most arid and least populated regions ...
Football is the most popular sport in the Libyan capital. Tripoli is home of the most prominent football clubs in Libya including Al Madina, Al Ahly Tripoli and Al-Ittihad Tripoli. Other sports clubs based in Tripoli include Al Wahda Tripoli and Addahra . The city also played host to the Italian Super Cup in 2002.