2009
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1. maybe a mosque?
2. Corinthia Tripoli Hotel
3. Marcus Aurelius Arch
4. View of Tripoli
5. That El Emad Towers
Showing posts with label Libya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Libya. Show all posts
Friday, January 16, 2015
Libya - Tripoli - 5 views
2009
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1. maybe a mosque?
2. Corinthia Tripoli Hotel
3. Marcus Aurelius Arch
4. View of Tripoli
5. That El Emad Towers
Libya - Tripoli 2008 Buildings Multiview
2008
Here are the names of buildings I could find:
Corinthia Tripoli Hotel
The Grand Hotel
Bab el Bahr Hotel
El Fateh Tower
That El Emad Towers
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Libya - Tripoli, View of Omar el Muktar Park
View of Omar el Muktar Park
2009
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Tripol is the largest and capital city of Libya. It was founded in the 7th century BC by the Phoenicians, who named it Oea.
Tripoli is the principal sea port, and the largest commercial and manufacturing centre in Libya. It is also the site of Al-Fateh University. Due to the city's long history, there are many sites of archaeological significance in Tripoli. The climate is typical Mediterranean, with hot, dry summers, cool winters and some modest rainfall.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Libya - Tripoli - Saraia El Hamra Castle
Tripoli - Libya
2009
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The Red Castle Museum or Assaraya Alhamra Museum is Libya's national museum. It is located in the historic building known as the "Red Castle" or "Red Saraya".
Designed in conjunction with UNESCO, the museum covers 5,000 years from prehistory to the independence revolution (1953) era. It is located in Tripoli's Assaria al-Hamra or Red Castle fortress, on the promontory above and adjacent to the old-town district with medina Ghadema.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Libya - Leptis Magna - An Historical Arch
Leptismagna - Libya
2009
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Leptis Magna was a prominent city of the Roman Empire. Its ruins are located in Khoms, Libya, 130 km (81 mi) east of Tripoli. The site is one of the most spectacular and unspoiled Roman ruins in the Mediterranean.
This is an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Libya - Sabratha, UNESCO Site
Sabratha
(Shown on the card is Mausoleum of Bes)
2009
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Sabratha, in the northwestern corner of modern Libya, was the westernmost of the "three cities" (Sabratha, Oea and Leptis Magna) of ancient Tripolitania. It lies on the Mediterranean coast about 66 km (41 mi) west of Tripoli. The extant archaeological site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982.
Monday, December 1, 2014
Libya - Myadan Aljazair Mousque
Tripoli - Libya
2009
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This was the Tripoli Cathedral, a Roman Catholic cathedral in Tripoli. In the 1970's to 1990's it was converted into a mosque.
Libya - Old City of Kabaw
Kawaw - Libya
2009
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This is old town and qsar (fortified storage area). This qsar is the main section of an ancient grainery . The gate was usually kept locked, but once inside, there are small rooms used for storage giving the feeling that this was once a small, fortified village. The rooms were used to store dates, wheat, and oil. Each small room had a door made from palm trunks. You can still see an old mill wheel, once used to make pure oil.
Libya - Septimus Severus
Leptismagna - Libya
2009
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Septimius Severus (11 April 145 – 4 February 211), was the Roman emperor from 193 to 211. As a young man he advanced through the cursus honorum—the customary succession of offices—under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Severus seized power after the death of Emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.
In 208 he invaded Caledonia (modern Scotland), but his ambitions were cut short when he fell fatally ill in late 210. Severus died in early 211 at Eboracum (today York, England), and was succeeded by his sons Caracalla and Geta.
Libya - Tripoli, Marcus Orelius Arch
Tripoli - Libya
2010
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The Arch of Marcus Aurelius is a Roman triumphal arch in the city of Oea, modern Tripoli, where it is found near the northeastern entrance to the Medina (old town).
The Arch was erected (entirely in marble) by Gaius Calpurnius Celsus, to commemorate the victories of Lucius Verus (junior colleague and adoptive brother of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius) over the Parthians in the Roman–Parthian War of 161–66.
The monument was erected in 165 AD, and cannot be dated later, because the Emperor is referred to with the title Armenicus, but not with the titles of Medicus and Parthicus, which were conferred on him in 166 AD.
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Libya - Desert 2008
Libya 2008
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The Libyan Desert, also known as the Western Desert, forms the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert. The desert extends approximately 1100 km from east to west, and 1,000 km from north to south, in about the shape of a rectangle. Like most of the Sahara, this desert is primarily sand and hamada or stony plain.
Libya - Leptis Magna
Libya
2010
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Leptis Magna, also called Lpqy or Neapolis, was a prominent city of the Roman Empire. Its ruins are located in Al Khums, Libya, 130 km east of Tripoli, on the coast where the Wadi Lebda meets the sea. The site is one of the most spectacular and unspoiled Roman ruins in the Mediterranean.
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