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Definition of Libya
1. Noun. A military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum.
Geographical relationships: Abu Nidal Organization, Ano, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Black September, Fatah Revolutionary Council, Fatah-rc, Revolutionary Organization Of Socialist Muslims, Al-jama'a Al-islamiyyah Al-muqatilah Bi-libya, Fig, Libyan Fighting Group, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Libyan Islamic Group
Group relationships: Arab League, Opec, Organization Of Petroleum-exporting Countries
Generic synonyms: African Country, African Nation
Terms within: Capital Of Libya, Tarabulus Al-gharb, Tripoli, Benghazi, Libyan Desert
Group relationships: Africa
Member holonyms: Libyan
Derivative terms: Libyan
Definition of Libya
1. Proper noun. A country in North Africa ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Libya
1. A country in northern africa. Its capital is tripoli. The general geographical area has been known since ancient times to the phoenicians, greeks, and romans. It has been in the hands of the italians, the british, the germans, and the french. Libya became independent in 1951. Although the name is very ancient and appeared in egyptian hieroglyphics as early as 2000 b.c., the meaning is not known. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Libya
Literary usage of Libya
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr, with a by Herodotus, Henry Cary, Johann Christian Felix Bähr (1852)
"libya is in the other tract; for libya commences from Egypt. ... But from this
narrow neck the tract which is called libya becomes very wide. 42. ..."
2. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"libya, but all religions are tolerated. The official language is Arabic. Vast sand
and rock deserts, almost completely barren, occupy the greater part of ..."
3. Herodotus: the fourth, fifth, and sixth books by Herodotus, Reginald Walter Macan (1895)
"Story of the Persian expedition into libya : the fate of Barter, the deliverance of
... Story of the colonisation of libya from Thera : chronology. § 5. ..."
4. The History of Herodotus by Herodotus, George Campbell Macaulay (1904)
"they assign it partly to libya and partly to Arabia,—if, I say, we should follow
this account, we should thereby declare that in former times the Egyptians ..."
5. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"And the old men draw maps as well as the young, only they seem not to draw actual
maps of libya, but only specially to note those points of Sicily which ..."
6. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"libya The Government restricts freedom of religion. There was no change in the
status of respect for religious freedom during the ..."
7. The Geography of Herodotus ...: Illustrated from Modern Researches and by James Talboys Wheeler (1854)
"Separation of Asia and libya. In dividing Asia from the continent of libya,1 the
great difficulty lay in the fact that the Greeks were ignorant of the real ..."
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