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Libya was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire according to King Darius I of Persia Naqshe Rustam and King Xerxes I of Persia ' Daiva inscription. It is also mentioned as being part of the 6th district by Herodotus , which also included Cyrene , a Greek colony ...

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Libya \Libya\ prop. n. A country in Northern Africa, between Egypt and Tunisia, bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It also borders on Algeria, Chad, Niger, and Sudan. It is an Arabic-speaking country with over 97% of the population Sunni Moslem. The population ...

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Thrasamund has just completed the construction in Carthage of an amphitheater and a vast therma that, I hear, are the grandest in all Libya outside of Egypt.

Iraq, then across it to Amman, Jordan, where they refueled and then angled across the Mediterranean Sea to Libya and soon into Bengasi, the capital.

What is the minimum garrison that can hold the western frontier of Libya and Benghazi, and what measures should be taken to make Benghazi a principal garrison and air base?

The drillship was leased through Libya under an agreement whereby Drioga would supply all technical and support personnel, and there were ample cut-outs in the arrangements.

It is the northeasternmost section of the modern nation of Libya and was much in the news in 1941 and 1942, when the British and Germans were fighting back and forth across it in the Desert War.

By the end of the second day there was not a person left alive within 1,200 miles of the Euphrates River and the murderous madness was continuing to spread, reaching as far west as Libya, as far east as Afghanistan, as far north as Volgograd, Russia, and as far south as the Gulf of Aden.

Euphrates River and the murderous madness was continuing to spread, reaching as far west as Libya, as far east as Afghanistan, as far north as Volgograd, Russia, and as far south as the Gulf of Aden.

For no ill is too remote for mortals to incur, seeing that they buried them in Libya, as far from the Colchians as is the space that is seen between the setting and the rising of the sun.

The chief events since I wrote on 15 April have been the British defeats in Libya and Greece, and the general worsening of the situation in the Middle East, with Iraq in revolt, Stalin evidently preparing to go into closer partnership with Hitler, and Darlan getting ready to let German troops into Syria.

F-111 and naval air strike against Libya in 1986 in response to the discotheque terrorist attack in Germany gave Gadhafi pause.

Irritated by his unsuccessful attempt to establish a colony in Israel, Mo later became enthralled by Muammar Qaddafi, the terrorist leader of Libya.

Then they salvaged the New Century off Libya, the Southwind in the Black Sea, the Tari Maru within sight of the lights of China.

In Erythraea I have spoken, and in Phrygia, in Samos and Libya and many other holy places in the lands of men.

At the time, this was an extremely propeace position and was seen as a betrayal by Saddam's erstwhile allies among the Arab radicals—Syria and Libya.

Despite all this concentration of spies, people, apes, and materiel, it was nonetheless scarcely surprising that the passing through the Strait of Gibraltar of an Italian cattle boat, the Sabine, en route from Libya to Ireland to pick up a fresh cargo of live meat for ritual slaughter on return to Tripoli, should be logged but attract no further attention.