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Libya
[ lib-ee-uh ]
noun
- Ancient Geography. the part of N Africa W of Egypt.
- Italian Libia. a republic in N Africa between Tunisia and Egypt: formerly a monarchy 1951–69. 679,400 sq. mi. (1,759,646 sq. km). : Tripoli.
Libya
/ ˈlɪbɪə /
noun
- a republic in N Africa, on the Mediterranean: became an Italian colony in 1912; divided after World War II into Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (under British administration) and Fezzan (under French); gained independence in 1951; monarchy overthrown by a military junta led by Colonel Gaddafi in 1969; Gaddafi's authoritarian regime overthrown in 2011 following a popular uprising. It consists almost wholly of desert and is a major exporter of oil. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: (Sunni) Muslim. Currency: Libyan dinar. Capital: Tripoli. Pop: 6 002 347 (2013 est). Area: 1 760 000 sq km (680 000 sq miles) Official nameAl-Jumhuria al-Arabia al-Libya ash-Shabiya al-Ishtirakiya al-Uzma
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From Ethiopia to Myanmar, and Libya to Yemen, civil wars are tearing countries apart.
Omar Sacirbey recalled that his father had once told him how, in 1967, Libya had refused to extend his and his wife’s visas.
Haftar’s offensive had united rival armed groups from across western Libya.
Second, it shows another crack in NATO’s façade as member state Turkey strikes out on its own, with its NATO partners divided over both Turkey’s actions and whom to support in Libya.
Libya last grabbed America’s imagination in 2011 during its civil war, which led to the death of Muammar Gaddafi.
The safety of American personnel at the American consulate in Libya was undermined by a “stand down order.”
Maybe giving Deborah K. Jones, our Ambassador to Libya, a 9mm SIG Sauer and a pair of nunchucks.
“The recruits will be returning to Libya in the coming days,” a spokesman said.
“The influx is due to a number of factors, starting with the lack of control in Libya,” he said.
Before Matthew VanDyke was a gun-toting rebel in Libya, he was just a 29-year-old with OCD, afraid of sugar.
The broad river was left behind; they set their course toward the arid mountains of Libya.
First, the Egyptians must be named, Caucasian races not autochthonically at home in Libya.
Is there any thing more sparkish and better-humoured than Venus's accosting her son in the deserts of Libya?
Later expeditions explored the banks of the Nile as far south as the country of the Dwarfs, as well as the oases of Libya.
That cold which had made her shudder in the night by the sacred lake had been left in the desolation of Libya.
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