Libya
the name given by the oldest geographers to Africa. In Homer and Hesiod, it denoted the whole of this quarotus, occasionally, the entire continent; Hesiod, it denoted the whole of this quarter of the globe, except Egypt; in Herodbut it is also applied by others to the N. part of the country, from Egypt and the Arabian Gulf W. to Mount Atlas. The great sandy tract of which the Sahara forms the principal part, was called the Libyan Desert.
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On account of the indefinite boundaries with the desert the area can only be approximately given at from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 square kilometers. This territory was taken from the Turks by the Italians after the Turkish-Italian War of 1911, after which only the spiritand stones, on the stems and branches of trees, on walls and fences, and on the sanne.
LICHENS (li'kens), familiar plants which form incrusting growths on rocks and stones, on the stems and branches of trees, on walls and fences, and on the earth itself. They are common in every zone, and at all levels from the seashore to the mountain summit. They are haring various German embassies abroad he