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Ancient Libya
During the Iron Age and Classical antiquity, ''Libya'' (from Greek :wikt:Λιβύη, Λιβύη: ''Libyē'', which came from Berber language, Berber: ''Libu'') referred to the area of North Africa directly west of the Nile, Nile river (Modern day Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco), not to be confused with the modern country of Libya, which only represents the eastern part of the territory at the time. Ancient Libya was one of the three parts of the world of the ancients (Libya, Asia, Europa). The territory also had part of the Mediterranean Sea named after it called the Libyan Sea or ''Mare Libycum'' which was the part of the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean south of Crete, between Cyrene, Libya, Cyrene and Alexandria. Ancient Greece, Greek and Roman people, Roman geographers placed the dividing line between Libya and Asia at the Nile because the entire region south of the Mediterranean and west of the Nile was homogeneous linguistically, and the Berber language was used all acr ...
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Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the List of ancient Greek cities, Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian Empire, Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the ''Histories (Herodotus), Histories'', a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, among other subjects such as the rise of the Achaemenid dynasty of Cyrus the Great, Cyrus. He has been described as "The Father of History", a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Cicero, and the "Herodotus#Contemporary and modern critics, Father of Lies" by others. The ''Histories'' primarily cover the lives of prominent kings and famous battles such as Battle of Marathon, Marathon, Battle of Thermopylae, Thermopylae, Battle of Artemisium, Artemisium, Battle of Salamis, Salamis, Battle of Plataea, Plataea, and Battle of Mycale, Mycale. His work deviates from the main topics to provide a cultural, ethnographical, ...
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