Libya, Country Located In North Africa. Most Of The Country Lies In The Sahara Desert, And Much Of Its Population Is Concentrated Along The Coast And Its Immediate Hinterland, Where Tripoli (Ṭarābulus), The De Facto Capital, And Banghāzī (Benghazi), Another Major City, Are Located.
With An Area Of 1,759,541 Square Kilometers (679,363 Square Miles), Algeria Is The 16Th Largest Country In The World, And The 4Th Largest In Africa.
5 Unesco World Heritage Sites.
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Cyrene was an ancient Greek and Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya. It was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times.
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Tadrart Acacus also known as the Acacus Mountains is a mountain run in Ghat, Libya. It structures some piece of the Saharan Desert. There are many hole compositions and rock craft in the region, made in different styles.
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Leptis Magna was enlarged and embellished by Septimius Severus, who was born there and later became emperor. It was one of the most beautiful cities of the Roman Empire, with its imposing public monuments, harbour, market-place, storehouses, shops and residential districts.
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Red Castle, set on an island adjacent to the shore. Built in the 16th century on the site of a Roman military encampment, it was the seat of power for Ottoman conquerors.
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Ghadamès, known as ‘the pearl of the desert’, stands in an oasis. It is one of the oldest pre-Saharan cities and an outstanding example of a traditional settlement. Its domestic architecture is characterized by a vertical division of functions: the ground floor used to store supplies; then another floor for the family, overhanging covered alleys that create what is almost an underground network of passageways; and, at the top
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