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Presentation Of Libya

Motassem Abusaa

Introduction Libya extends over 1,759,540 square kilometres (679,362 sq mi) and approximately 1800 coastline which is the longest in Africa, making it the 17th largest nation in the world by size. Libya is somewhat smaller than Indonesia in land area, and roughly the size of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is bound to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, the west by Tunisia and Algeria, the southwest by Niger, the south by Chad and Sudan and to the east by Egypt.

Geographical map of Libya

Libya desert ( Sahara )The Libyan Desert, which covers much of Libya, is one of the most arid and sun-baked places on earth. In places, decades may pass without seeing any rainfall at all, and even in the highlands rainfall seldom happens, once every 5–10 years. At Uweinat, as of 2006 the last recorded rainfall was in September 1998.

Image of Sahara

The capital of Libya , Tripoli

Creation of the name ( Libya )

In 1934, Italy adopted the name "Libya" (used by the Ancient Greeks for all of North Africa, except Egypt) as the official name of the colony (made up of the three provinces of Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan).

Libya occupation Ottoman Tripolitania

Italian Libya and Omar Mukhtar was the

resistance leader against the Italian

colonization and became a national hero

despite his capture and execution on 16

September 1931.

Omar Al Mukhtar

Independency of Libya On 24 December 1951, Libya declared its independence as the United Kingdom of Libya, a constitutional and hereditary monarchy under King Idris, Libya's only monarch. The discovery of significant oi reserves in 1959 and the subsequent income from petroleum sales enabled one of the world's poorest nations to establish an extremely wealthy state.

King Idris I

Muammar GaddafiOn 1 September 1969, a small group of

military officers led by 27-year-old army officer Muammar Gaddafi staged against King Idris, launching the Al Fateh Revolution. Gaddafi was referred to as the "Brother Leader and Guide of the Revolution" in government statements and the official Libyan press.

On 2 March 1977, Libya officially became the "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya".

Muammar Gaddafi

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