Basic People's Congress () was the primary

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under the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. It corresponded approximately to the level of a

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. During

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's rule, political caucuses and committees of the Basic People's Congress operated at this level.Vandewalle, Dirk J. (1998) ''Libya since independence: oil and state-building'' I B Tauris, London, pp. 95-97, Representatives from the Basic People's Congresses regulated operations at the higher shabiyah (district) level. In July 2013 the shabiyat and Basic People's Congress system was replaced with a new baladiyat system of ninety-nine first-level

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Notes and references

References

* Law, Gwillim (1999) "Libya" ''Administrative subdivisions of countries'' McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, p. 219, Former subdivisions of Libya History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi {{gov-stub