History:OBGplus
Located on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa and bordering Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Algeria and Tunisia, Libya has a rich history dating back to the Phoenician era. Various civilisations ruled over the regions of Tripolitania in the north-west, Cyrenaica in the east and Fezzan in the south-west, which make up modern Libya, including the Romans, the Ottomans and the Italians, before the country became independent in 1951. Tripoli, Libya’s capital city, was founded by the Phoenicians…