Libyan Sea
The Libyan Sea (Latin: Libycum Mare; Arabic: البحر الليبي; Greek: Λιβυκό πέλαγος) is the portion of the Mediterranean Sea north of the African coast of ancient Libya, i.e. Cyrenaica, and Marmarica (the coast of what is now eastern Libya and western Egypt, between Tobruk and Alexandria).[1]
Name
[edit]This designation was used by ancient geographers describing the southern Mediterranean, but the term is also used by modern travel writers and cartographers.[2]
Surface area
[edit]About 350,000 km2.[3]
Location
[edit]The southern coastline of Crete which borders the Libyan Sea includes the Asterousia Mountains and Mesara Plain; this area is the locus of considerable ancient Bronze Age settlement including the sites of Kommos, Hagia Triada and Phaistos.[4]
Not counting Crete, other islands in the Libyan Sea are Gavdos, Gavdopoula, Koufonisi, and Chrysi.
To the east is the Levantine Sea, to the north the Ionian Sea, and to the west the Strait of Sicily.
Borders
[edit]In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion about the maritime boundaries in the region. [5][6][7][8]
See also
[edit]- Asterousia Mountains
- Gulf of Sidra
- Turkish intervention in Libya (2020–present)
- Libya (GNA)–Turkey maritime deal
- Exclusive economic zone of Greece
- Libyan civil war (2014–2020)
- Cyprus–Turkey maritime zones dispute
- Egypt–Greece maritime deal
- Aegean dispute
References
[edit]- ^ George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, 1861, D. Appleton and Co.
- ^ Crete Map, Eastern Crete Development Organization (2004) Fotis Serfas
- ^ "Libyan Sea Map – Locations and Maps of Atlantic Ocean".
- ^ "C.Michael Hogan, Phaistos fieldnotes, The Modern Antiquarian, 2007". Archived from the original on 16 April 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2008.
- ^ "Legal Implications of the Turkey-Libya Maritime Border Agreement – American University Business Law Review".
- ^ https://sovereignlimits.com/boundaries/libya-tunisia-maritime [bare URL]
- ^ https://sovereignlimits.com/boundaries/northern-cyprus-turkiye-maritime [bare URL]
- ^ "ANALYSIS - Strategic, legal aspects of Turkey-Libya deal".
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