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Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Libya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The three traditional sections of the country are Tripolitania, the Fezzan and Cyrenaica. |
| | Tripoli and Cyrenaica were Roman colonies until they were conquered by Arab Muslims in the 7th century. |
| | By the 19th century the area was an increasingly independent Ottoman province until it came under the control of Italy in 1912. |
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