Ancient Libya

The Latin relieve oneself Λιβύη: Libyē, which came from Berber: Libu talked to a African continent. Berbers occupied a area for thousands of years before the recording of history in ancient Egypt. Climate changes affected the locations of the settlements.

More narrowly, Libya could also refer to the country immediately west of Egypt, viz Marmarica Libya Inferior & Cyrenaica Libya Superior. The Libyan Sea or Mare Libycum was the factor of the Mediterranean Sea south of Crete, between Cyrene and Alexandria.

In the Hellenistic period, the Berbers were required as Libyans, a Greek term for the inhabitants of the Berber world. Their lands were called "Libya" and listed to the requested African continent. Egypt contains the Siwa Oasis, which was component of ancient Libya. The Siwi language, a Berber language, is still spoken in the area.

Later sources

After the Egyptians, the Greeks; Romans; and Byzantines mentioned various other tribes in Libya. Later tribal title differ from the Egyptian ones but, probably, some tribes were named in the Egyptian predominance and the later ones, as well. The Imazighen.

Late period sources give more detailed descriptions of Libya and its inhabitants. The ancient historian Herodotus describes Libya and the Libyans in his fourth book, known as The Libyan Book. Pliny the Elder, Diodorus Siculus, and Procopius also contributed to what is now primary source the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical thing on ancient Libya and the Libyans.

Ibn Khaldun, who committed the main part of his book Kitab el'ibar, which is known as "The history of the Berbers", did not use the designation Libya and Libyans, but instead used Arabic names: The Old Maghreb, El-Maghrib el-Qadim, and the Berbers El-Barbar or El-Baraberah.