Ancient Libya (English Wikipedia)

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  • Vycichl, W. (1 November 1985). "Africa". Encyclopédie berbère (in French) (2): 216–217. doi:10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.888. ISSN 1015-7344.
  • "Pausanias and His Description of Greece", Pausanias and Other Greek Sketches, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–159, 28 June 2012, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139207669.002, ISBN 978-1-108-04751-7, retrieved 4 August 2024
  • Camps, G. (1 January 1989). "Athéna". Encyclopédie berbère (in French) (7): 1011–1013. doi:10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.1211. ISSN 1015-7344.

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  • Vycichl, W. (1 November 1985). "Africa". Encyclopédie berbère (in French) (2): 216–217. doi:10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.888. ISSN 1015-7344.
  • Camps, G. (1 January 1989). "Athéna". Encyclopédie berbère (in French) (7): 1011–1013. doi:10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.1211. ISSN 1015-7344.

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  • "Africa - whats in a name?". sahistory.org. Archived from the original on 6 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023. For the ancient Greeks, almost everything south of the Mediterranean Sea and west of the Nile was referred to as 'Libya'. This was also the name given by the ancient Greeks to the Berber people who occupied most of that land. The ancient Greeks believed their world was divided into three greater 'regions', Europa, Asia and Libya, all centred around the Aegean Sea. They also believed that the dividing line between Libya and Asia was the Nile River, placing half of Egypt in Asia and the other half in Libya. For many centuries, even into the late medieval period, cartographers followed the Greek example, placing the Nile as the dividing line between the landmasses.

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  • Pliny the Elder. "Book III, Chapter 1". Natural History. Archived from the original on 31 August 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2023. The whole globe is divided into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Our description commences where the sun sets and at the Straits of Gades, where the Atlantic ocean, bursting in, is poured forth into the inland seas. As it makes its entrance from that side, Africa is on the right hand and Europe on the left; Asia lies between them; the boundaries being the rivers Tanais and Nile.
  • "Herodotus, The Histories, Book 4, chapter 180". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 26 July 2024. They celebrate a yearly festival of Athena, where their maidens are separated into two bands and fight each other with stones and sticks, thus (they say) honoring in the way of their ancestors that native goddess whom we call Athena","As for Athena, they say that she was daughter of Poseidon and the Tritonian lake!
  • "Pindar, Olympian, Olympian 7 For Diagoras of Rhodes Boxing-Match 464 B. C." www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 26 July 2024. when, by the skills of Hephaestus with the bronze-forged hatchet, Athena leapt from the top of her father's head and cried aloud with a mighty shout.

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  • Strabo. "Book II, Chapter 5:26". Geography. Now as you sail into the strait at the Pillars, Libya lies on your right hand as far as the stream of the Nile, and on your left hand across the strait lies Europe as far as the Tanaïs. And both Europe and Libya end at Asia.
  • Herodotus. "Book II, chapter 16". Histories. If then our judgment of this be right, the Ionians are in error concerning Egypt; but if their opinion be right, then it is plain that they and the rest of the Greeks cannot reckon truly, when they divide the whole earth into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Libya; they must add to these yet a fourth part, the Delta of Egypt, if it belong neither to Asia nor to Libya; for by their showing the Nile is not the river that separates Asia and Libya; the Nile divides at the extreme angle of this Delta, so that this land must be between Asia and Libya.

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  • "Africa - whats in a name?". sahistory.org. Archived from the original on 6 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023. For the ancient Greeks, almost everything south of the Mediterranean Sea and west of the Nile was referred to as 'Libya'. This was also the name given by the ancient Greeks to the Berber people who occupied most of that land. The ancient Greeks believed their world was divided into three greater 'regions', Europa, Asia and Libya, all centred around the Aegean Sea. They also believed that the dividing line between Libya and Asia was the Nile River, placing half of Egypt in Asia and the other half in Libya. For many centuries, even into the late medieval period, cartographers followed the Greek example, placing the Nile as the dividing line between the landmasses.
  • Pliny the Elder. "Book III, Chapter 1". Natural History. Archived from the original on 31 August 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2023. The whole globe is divided into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Our description commences where the sun sets and at the Straits of Gades, where the Atlantic ocean, bursting in, is poured forth into the inland seas. As it makes its entrance from that side, Africa is on the right hand and Europe on the left; Asia lies between them; the boundaries being the rivers Tanais and Nile.
  • The History of Ibn Khaldun, third chapter p. 184-258 Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine(in Arabic)
  • Bates, Oric (5 November 2013). The Eastern Libyan(1914):An Essay. Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 9781136248771. Archived from the original on 2 December 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  • Chaker, Salem. "L'écriture libyco-berbère (The Libyco-Berber script)" (in French). Archived from the original on 13 January 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  • [1] Archived 9 April 2013 at the Wayback MachineHerodotus, On Libya, from The Histories, c. 430 BC

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  • Vycichl, W. (1 November 1985). "Africa". Encyclopédie berbère (in French) (2): 216–217. doi:10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.888. ISSN 1015-7344.
  • Camps, G. (1 January 1989). "Athéna". Encyclopédie berbère (in French) (7): 1011–1013. doi:10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.1211. ISSN 1015-7344.