Qasr Libya

Qasr Libya
قصر ليبيا
Gasr Elbia[1]
Town
Qasr Libya is located in Libya
Qasr Libya
Qasr Libya
Location in Libya
Coordinates: 32°38′N 21°24′E / 32.633°N 21.400°E / 32.633; 21.400
Country Libya
RegionCyrenaica
DistrictJabal al Akhdar
Population
 (2006)[2]
 • Total
4,933
Time zoneUTC+2

Qasr Libya or Qasr Lebia (Arabic: قصر ليبيا, lit. 'Lebia Castle', Lebia/Libya being a corruption of the ancient name Olbia) is a small town in northern Libya about 66 kilometres (41 mi) northwest of Bayda. In ancient times, it was a Roman / Byzantine town called Olbia and Theodorias, the ruins of which were excavated in the 1950s. The town contains a museum with fifty Byzantine mosaics.[3] It is on the cross-roads between the eastwards Marj–Bayda main road, and the southwards Qasr Libya–Marawa road.

Notes

  1. ↑ Stucchi, Sandro (1975) Architettura Cirenaica L'erma di Bretschneider, Rome, p. 358, p. 381, OCLC 2099264
  2. ↑ Amraja M. el Khajkhaj, "Noumou al Mudon as Sagheera fi Libia", Dar as Saqia, Benghazi-2008, p. 121.
  3. ↑ Azema, James (2000). "East of Barce". Libya Handbook: The Travel Guide p. 163, Footprint Travel Guides, Bath, England, ISBN 1-900949-77-6.
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