Product Description
SCWPM.# 46a - TBB.#B510a
Date: ND (1981) - Grade: Unc. - Signature: 1
Description: Colour: Green and pink. Front: Arabic text; Omar El Mukhtar.
Back: English text; crowd and hilltop fortress in Sabha.
Solid security thread. - Watermark: Coat of arms.
Printer: (Unknown). - Size: 180 x 90 mm. - Material: Paper.
More info about Libya: The modern name of "Libya" is an evolution of the "Libu" or "Libúē" name (from Greek Λιβύη, Libyē), generally encompassing the people of Cyrenaica and Marmarica. The "Libúē" or "libu" name likely came to be used in the classical world as an identity for the natives of the North African region, and it possibly derives from Proto-Afroasiatic labiʔ- (lion), compare Somali libaax. The name was revived in 1934 for Italian Libya from the ancient Greek Λιβύη (Libúē).[24] It was intended to supplant terms applied to Ottoman Tripolitania, the coastal region of what is today Libya, having been ruled by the Ottoman Empire from 1551 to 1911 as the Eyalet of Tripolitania. The name "Libya" was brought back into use in 1903 by Italian geographer Federico Minutilli.
