Libya
The Aeneid, Virgil’s epic Latin poem, offers as profound an insight into the current Libyan crisis as any 24-hour news channel, argues Robert Zaretsky. |
Todd Thompson describes how the relationship between a Christian missionary, nicknamed ‘Anderson of Arabia’, and a Muslim religious leader from the Italian-controlled region of Cyrenaica played a major role in the creation of modern Libya after 1945. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 12, 2011
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The Aeneid, Virgil’s epic Latin poem, offers as profound an insight into the current Libyan crisis as any 24-hour news channel, argues Robert Zaretsky. |
During the seventh century the Arabs invaded North Africa three times, bringing not just a new religion but a language and customs that were alien to the native Berber tribes of the Sahara and Mediterranean hinterland. Eamonn Gearon looks at the rise of the first Islamic empire. |
In the light of current events in North Africa and the Middle East, David Motadel examines the increasing frequency of popular rebellions around the world. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 4
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On the eve of the Second World War, the navies of Italy, France and Britain plotted for supremacy in the Mediterranean. Their actions resulted in the fracturing of the sea’s age-old unity, with consequences that persist to this day. Simon Ball explains how the ‘Middle Sea’ became the Middle East. |
David Winter visits a land beset for millennia by the fantasies of outsiders. Published in History Today, 2008
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Richard Cavendish explains how the Kingdom of Libya was established on December 24th, 1951. |
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