Qasr Libya Explained

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 MarjBayda 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,
  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, .

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