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unusual facts about Sabha, Libya


Trafalgar-class submarine

The MOD also confirmed that on 24 March a further series of missiles were fired into Libya by a Trafalgar-class submarine at air defence targets around the city of Sabha.


2007 Arab League Summit

According to Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham, Libya boycotted the summit in protest of the lack of “seriousness” of Arab countries.

Abraham Mar Thoma

He resisted the undemocratic and dictatorial actions of Dewan Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer and was instrumental in getting a resolution passed by the Sabha Council (church council) condemning Sir C. P’s move to proclaim Travancore as an independent state following the lapse of British Paramountey.

Acacus

Tadrart Acacus, a region and mountain range in southwestern Libya

Ailas

The Mahabharata (Sabha Parva:14) mentioned about the Ailas as, "The numerous royal lines and other ordinary Kshatriyas all represent themselves to be the descendants of Aila and Ikshwaku. The descendants of Aila, as indeed, the kings of Ikshwaku’s race, are each divided into a hundred separate dynasties."

Al Aan FM

Al Aan TV launched Al Aan FM in August 2012 in Libya, the FM launched in Syria with a concrete grid in October 2012 broadcasting live from the UAE.

Andhra Mahasabha

The branches of Andhra Maha Sabha were opened at Sircilla, Jagtial, Manthani, Peddapalli, Metpalli, Koratla, Choppadandi, Sultanabad, Huzurabad and several other places in Karimnagar district.

After the conference of Sircilla, a permanent office of Andhra Maha Sabha was opened at Boiwada in Karimnagar.

Andhra Pradesh by-election, 2012

By-elections occurred in Andhra Pradesh in March for a Vidhan Sabha seat and on 12 June for Nellore and 18 Vidhan Sabha constituencies following the disqualification of defected members of the Indian National Congress who joined the YSR Congress Party of the former chief minister's son, Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy.

André Liohn

In 2012, with fellow photographers Christopher Morris, Jehad Nga, Bryan Denton, Lynsey Addario, Eric Bouvet and Finbarr O'Reilly, he created the project Almost Dawn in Libya, four photo exhibits in the main Libyan cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Misurata and Zintan.

Arab League–Iran relations

According to Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi, Iran, Egypt, and Libya are helping the militia.

Arthur Fitzsimons

His coaching career took him to Libya where he spent five and a half years in Tripoli in the 60s before Muammar Gaddafi appeared on the scene and Fitzsimons was advised to leave.

Arya Samaj in Guyana

After 1975, however, the board of the Guyana Arya Pratinidhi Sabha wished to loosen its ties with the People's Progressive Party (PPP) led by Cheddi Jagan to adopt a politically more independent policy.

Ayyankali

Elders of the Pulaya community in Kuttanadu still cherish the memory of ”the Panthi Bhojanam” organized by a prominent landlord and the then-member of Praja Sabha from Kuttanad, Pallithanam Luca Matthai (Pallithanathu Matthaichen).

Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology

Y. S. Chowdary, elected member of the Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) in 2010, from the state of Andhra Pradesh and Promoter-Director of Sujana Group, ranked as one of the top 10 expanding groups of companies in India as of July, 2011

Dirkou

While isolated in modern Niger, it once lay on the important central soudan route of the Trans-Saharan trade which linked coastal Libya and the Fezzan to the Kanem-Bornu Empire near Lake Chad.

Ellora Caves

It got the appellation "Indra Sabha" probably it is significantly ornate and also because of the sculpture of the yaksha (dedicated attendant deity) Matanga on an elephant, which was wrongly identified as that of Indra.

Elounda

In 1984, the President of France, François Mitterrand, and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libya met in a luxurious Elounda resort to discuss conflict resolution in Chad.

Felix Katongo

Born in Mufulira, Katongo has played club football in Zambia, South Africa, Angola, France and Libya for Butondo Western Tigers, Forest Rangers, Green Buffaloes, Jomo Cosmos, Petro Atlético, Rennes B, LB Châteauroux, Mamelodi Sundowns and Al-Ittihad.

First Battle of Benghazi

The battle mainly took place in Benghazi, the second-largest city in Libya, with related clashes occurring in the nearby Cyrenaican cities of Bayda and Derna.

Fox Photo

In the chase scene(s) in Back to the Future, the Libyan terrorists crash their van into a Fox Photo booth at the Twin Pines/Lone Pine Mall.

George Silk

Trapped with the famed Desert Rats at Tobruk in Libya, he was captured by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces but escaped 10 days later.

Great Temple of the Aten

Project leader Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Based on the coins and pottery we found, it appears to be a massive regional center that traded with Greece, Turkey and Libya."

Hermann Eilts

He served as an American ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, assisted Henry Kissinger's Mideast shuttle diplomacy effort, worked with Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat throughout the Camp David Accords, and dodged a Libyan hit team.

History of Islamic Tripolitania and Cyrenaica

The Amazigh of Libya eventually came to accept the imam as the Mahdi (Promised One).

Kartar Singh Duggal

Duggal had been a member of many literary and cultural centres including being the President of Punjabi Sahitya Sabha (Punjabi Literary Society), Delhi.

Lawrence Gonzi

Malta’s support for the Libyan revolution has been appreciated by the country’s new rulers and the chairman of the Transitional National Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, has already made it clear that Malta will have a “distinguished role” in the rebuilding of Libya.

Legend of the Lost

The lost city of Timgad referred to in the film was actually the Leptis Magna ruins, a Roman city dating back to the 7th century B.C. near Tripoli, in northwest Libya, while "Timbuktu" was actually in Zliten, Libya.

Libya–Pakistan relations

The new general elections in 1993 revived the comeback of PPP under Benazir Bhutto who was immediately sworned as Prime Minister.

Ma'tan as-Sarra

Ma'tan as-Sarra is an oasis in the Kufra District municipality in the southeast corner of Libya.

Marrack Goulding

In 1968, he was once more posted overseas, as the Head of Chancery of the British Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, and later of the Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.

Masjid Al-Dahab

Under the supervision of former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, it was constructed in 1976 for the visit of Libya's President Muammar al-Gaddafi, although his visit was cancelled.

Mayte Carrasco

From 2009-2012, she worked as a professor on Journalism and a freelance journalist covering conflicts in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.

Middle East Theatre of World War II

While the fighting was taking place in Libya, Axis forces were attacking Greece.

Middle Eastern Empires

The city's status as residence of the Eastern Roman Emperor made it into the premier city in all of the Eastern Roman colonies in the Balkans, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, Egypt, and part of present day Libya.

Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi

Born to a Kanembu father and an Arab mother near Murzuk in what is today Libya, Al-Kanemi rose to prominence as a member of a rural religious community in the western provinces of what was then a much atrophied Borno Empire.

Nigel Napier-Andrews

Nigel Napier-Andrews was born in England, and spent parts of his childhood in Wimbledon, Cairo, Egypt and Benghazi, Libya.

Oueddei Kichidemi

Provocations and abuses by the new authorities grew so unbearable that at the end of 1966 Kichidemi went in exile with a thousand of followers to the oasis of Kufra, in Libya, after that the President François Tombalbaye had stripped him of his judicial powers and refused to appoint his son Goukouni secretary of the Bardaï tribunal.

P. D. T. Acharya

D. T. Acharya (born 17 June 1945) is the former Secretary General of the 14th Lok Sabha and 15th Lok Sabha and Lok Sabha Secretariat, Parliament of India, i.e. the House of the People in the Indian Parliament (similar to the British House of Commons).

Population growth

The nation is also host to roughly 255,000 refugees from Sudan's Darfur region, and about 77,000 refugees from the Central African Republic, while approximately 188,000 Chadians have been displaced by their own civil war and famines, have either fled to either the Sudan, the Niger, or more recently, Libya.

Prakash Vir Shastri

Shastri proposed the Religious Protection Bill in March 1960 in the Lok Sabha, which called for the protection of religious minorities in the face of mass conversions by force occurring across the country at the time.

R. Thamaraikani

He lost the Lok Sabha election contesting as an independent against ADMK candidate V. Ramaswami, former judge of Supreme Court.

Roman Catholicism in Libya

Before World War II the number of Catholics increased in Libya due to its status as an Italian colony, but the Catholic Cathedral of Tripoli (built in the 1920s) was converted to a mosque.

Saharan languages

The Saharan languages are a small family of languages spoken across parts of the eastern Sahara, extending from northwestern Darfur to southern Libya, north and central Chad, eastern Niger and northeastern Nigeria.

Sharon Burley

Sharon Kay Burley Sullivan (born 8 May 1956 in Tripoli, Libya) is an Australian figure skater who completed in ladies singles.

Shripad

Shripad Yasso Naik (born 1952), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India

St Issey

On 28 December 1942 the British tug HMS St. Issey (Lt. J. H. W. Howe, RNR) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine (U-617) off Benghazi, Libya.

Taghribat Bani Hilal

The Egyptian poet and writer Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi has made an exhaustive collection of the Sira, travelling from Egypt to Libya to Tunisia to document the variants of the epic.

V.R. Raghava Krishna

In September 2013 at his concert, featured by Nadabrahma Gana Sabha in Vanaprastha, Coimbatore, the graphic presentations revealed how he internalised the inner core and fertilised it by intense saadhakam (the way of learning, practising and mastering Carnatic Music).

Western Desert Campaign

According to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the approximately 215,000 Italians in Libya faced approximately 35,000 British in Egypt.


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