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Tripoli, still the white bride
Libyan
legend Ahmed Fakroun
Born in the Libyan city of Benghazi, he spent
long periods in the UK and France in the 1970s
and 1980s, recording a handful of singles and
albums that now fetch high prices on record
collectors' websites.read
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Shashank Bengali:
Tourist Mecca in the making
We were walking
through the former outpost of another empire.
Leptis Magna, located about 75 miles outside
Tripoli on a rocky chunk of the Mediterranean
coast, was once the grandest Roman city in this
part of the world. Thanks to intermittent
flooding, the city's limestone remains, some
dating from the second century B.C., were buried
under several thick layers of sand for centuries
and thus are remarkably well preserved. UNESCO
has designated it a
World Heritage Site,
one of five in Libya.
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Ghdames..the jewel of the Sahara
Septimus Severus..a Roman
emperor from Leptis Magna
Lucius Septimus Severus, a Romanised
African was born in Leptis Magna (Libya), on the 1st
April AD 145. He started his official career as a
civil magistrate, and then joined the army to become a
military commander. As
a capable
and popular leader in the army, he made his way
up to Rome the capital of the Roman empire.
Septimus´s chance to rise and achieve what many
officials,rich people and
politicians dreamt of, came up when emperor
Commodus the son of emperor Marcus Aurelius was
murdered.
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