Qasr Libya

Town in Cyrenaica, Libya From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Qasr Libya or Qasr Lebia (Arabic: قصر ليبيا, lit. 'Lebia Castle', Lebia/Libya being a corruption of the ancient name Olbia) is a small town in northern Libya about 66 kilometres (41 mi) northwest of Bayda. In ancient times, it was a Roman / Byzantine town called Olbia and Theodorias, the ruins of which were excavated in the 1950s. The town contains a museum with fifty Byzantine mosaics.[2] It is on the cross-roads between the eastwards MarjBayda main road, and the southwards Qasr Libya–Marawa road.

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Qasr Libya
قصر ليبيا
Gasr Elbia[1]
Town
Country Libya
RegionCyrenaica
DistrictJabal al Akhdar
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