To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
...”a must for tourists”...
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Yeah, who wants to go for a vacay to Libya?
6 posted on
09/28/2021 5:53:31 PM PDT by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: nickcarraway
Great potential for what? Reestablishing the Roman Empire?
7 posted on
09/28/2021 5:54:05 PM PDT by
rfreedom4u
("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
To: nickcarraway
Wow. Beautiful architecture. This must have been one impressive city!
8 posted on
09/28/2021 5:54:17 PM PDT by
fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
To: nickcarraway; All
Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean. Originally a 7th-century BC Phoenician foundation, it was greatly expanded under Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, who was born in the city. The 3rd Augustan Legion was stationed here to defend the city against Berber incursions. After the legion's dissolution under Gordian III in 238, the city was increasingly open to raids in the later part of the 3rd century. Diocletian reinstated the city as provincial capital, and it grew again in prosperity until it fell to the Vandals in 439. It was reincorporated into the Eastern Empire in 533 but continued to be plagued by Berber raids and never recovered its former importance. It fell to the Muslim invasion in c. 647 and was subsequently abandoned. Its ruins are within present-day Khoms, Libya, 130 km east of Tripoli.
Wikipedia
11 posted on
09/28/2021 6:18:27 PM PDT by
fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
To: SunkenCiv
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