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The Provinces of Libya were prescribed in 1934, during the last period of colonial Italian Libya, and continued through post-independence Libya until 1963 when the Governorates system was instituted. The three main provinces of the country follow the original colonial divisions of Italian Libya: Tripolitania province , Cyrenaica province and ...
Under the Italians Libya was eventually divided into four provinces and one territory: Tripoli, Misrata, Benghazi, Derna, (in the north) and the Territory of the Libyan Sahara (in the south). [6] After the French and British occupied Libya in 1943, it was again split into three provinces: Tripolitania in the northwest, Cyrenaica in the east ...
English: Map of the three Governorates of Libya based on the borders of today's governorates. After independence in 1951 , until 1963, Libya was divided into three governorates ( muhafazat ): Cyrenaica , Tripolitania , and Fezzan .
The 3 main historical subdivisions of Libya. Subdivisions of Libya have varied significantly over the last two centuries. Initially Libya under Ottoman and Italian control was organized into three to four provinces, then into three governorates and after World War II into twenty-five districts ().
Provinces of Libya; ... Tripolitania (province of Libya) Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/Mar 2011; Template:Regions of Libya; Global file usage.
Libya, [b] officially the State of Libya, [c] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest, as well as maritime borders with Greece, Italy and Malta to the north.
The Islamic State – Libya Province (Arabic: ولاية ليبيا, romanized: Wilayah Libya) was a militant Islamist group active in Libya under three branches: Fezzan Province [a] in the desert south, Cyrenaica Province [b] in the east, and Tripolitania Province [c] in the west around Tripoli, Libya's capital city.
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