Official Name: | Qasr Libya |
Other Name: | Gasr Elbia[1] |
Native Name: | قصر ليبيا |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Libya |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Libya |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Libya |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Cyrenaica |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Jabal al Akhdar |
Population As Of: | 2006 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 4,933 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | UTC+2 |
Coordinates: | 32.6333°N 45°W |
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 northwest of Bayda. In ancient times, it was called Olbia and Theodorias, the ruins of which were excavated in the 1950s. The town contains a museum with fifty Byzantine mosaics.[3] It's on the cross-roads between the eastwards Marj–Bayda main road, and the southwards Qasr Libya–Marawa road.