In 670 AD all Libya was in the hands of the Arabs: Roman rule since BC 2nd century finally ended. Only in Benito Mussolini's time, more than one thousand years later, Libya was recreated as a political entity in 1934 (with a name borrowed from the Diocletian reforms).

Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean.

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 …

The Romans in Libya After the third Punic war, Rome established itself as a powerful entity in the North African continent. This left Libya, which Alexander the Great had initially annexed to the Greek empire and later comprised part of the Ptolemaic Kingdom under the Ptolemaic rule, finding itself sandwiched between powers fighting over their ...

The acclamation of the African-born Septimius Severus on April 14, 193 ce, as twenty-first ruler of the Roman Empire, had an enormous impact on the provinces of North Africa and particularly on those territories which nowadays correspond to modern Libya.

Roman architecture became the adopted style of building after the incorporation of Tripolitania into the Roman empire, in 46AD. However, the majority of construction took place during the reign of Septimus Severus, with the building of the cities of Sabratha, Oea/Tripoli and Leptis Magna.

It is located 62 miles (100 km) southeast of Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast of Libya. Lying 2 miles (3 km) east of what is now Al-Khums (Homs), Leptis contains some of the world’s finest remains of Roman architecture. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1982.

Feb 7, 2013 · In the North African country of Libya, some of the world’s most well-preserved ruins from the ancient empires of Greece and Rome have been hidden in plain sight for the past four decades.

This chapter charts the development of Italian imperial discourses on Roman imperialism during Italy’s 1911–1912 invasion of the Ottoman provinces Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, which make up modern Libya.

Sep 27, 2021 · Founded by the Phoenicians and later conquered by the Romans, the ancient city of Leptis Magna in Lybia is often described as the "Rome of Africa". UNESCO classified these ancient ruins as a...