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Libya was an Italian colony for over four decades, which also had a great impact on the country's culture. Once an isolated society, Libyans succeeded in preserving their traditional folk customs alive today, now recognized by many as the most "pure" extant form of Arab culture found outside the Arabian Peninsula .
Ancient Libya was one of the three parts of the world of the ancients (Libya, Asia, Europa). [1] The territory also had part of the Mediterranean Sea named after it called the Libyan Sea or Mare Libycum which was the part of the Mediterranean south of Crete, between Cyrene and Alexandria.
The areas of North Africa that have retained the Berber language and traditions best have been, in general, Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. Much of Berber culture is still celebrated among the cultural elite in Morocco and Algeria, especially in the Kabylia, the Aurès and the Atlas Mountains.
Saharan pastoral culture spanned throughout northern Africa (e.g., Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Niger, Sudan), including in Niger where human burials, pottery, and rock art were found. [17] At Uan Muhuggiag, the pastoral culture, which has been characterized as mixed race, may have begun earlier than 5500 BP. [17]
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 ...
Ancient Libyan tribes and traditions – the Maghreb Berbers: Garamentes, Tuareg, and others; Libyan culture during the Phoenician–Punic–Greek–Roman Libya–Byzantine–Ottoman Tripolitania-era traditions; Islamic architecture; Italian Libya, World War II, Libyan independence and 20th-century Libyan heritage; Natural history of the Libyan ...
Gaetulia, in ancient geography, was the land of the Gaetuli, a warlike tribe of ancient Libya that appears in Virgil's Aeneid (19 BC). [28] The Gaetulia lion appears in Odes of Horace (23 BC), [ 29 ] Pliny the Elder 's Natural History (77 AD), [ 30 ] Philostratus 's Life of Apollonius of Tyana ( c. 215), [ 31 ] Robert Louis Stevenson 's Travels ...
Libya has a number of World Heritage Sites from the ancient Greek era. The Phoenicians were some of the first to establish coastal trading posts in Libya, when the merchants of Tyre (in present-day Lebanon ) developed commercial relations with the various Berber tribes and made treaties with them to ensure their cooperation in the exploitation ...