The Frontier Wire was a 271 km (168 mi) obstacle in Italian Libya, along the length of the border of British-held Egypt, running from El Ramleh, in the...
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Oasis Bardia Musaid Jaghbub Egypt–Libya relations Egypt–Sudan border Frontier Wire (Libya) CIA World Factbook – Libya, retrieved 22 January 2020 Brownlie...
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on the Italian side of the Frontier Wire (Libya) as support for Fort Capuzzo, also called Sidi Omar (by the British Libyan Sidi Omar) and Sidi Omar Nuovo...
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Grand Prix Frontier Wire (Libya) Italian Libyans Massacres during the Italo-Turkish War Aozou Strip Italian Libyan Colonial Division 1st Libyan Division...
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Fort Capuzzo (category Forts in Libya)
Capuzzo) was a fort in the colony of Italian Libya, near the Libya–Egypt border, next to the Italian Frontier Wire. The Litoranea Balbo (Via Balbo) ran south...
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Rodolfo Graziani (category Governors-general of Italian Libya)
Libya) with the phrase "Lo sai che quell'idiota di Graziani farà una brutta fine" (You know that the idiotic Graziani will have a bad end). Frontier Wire...
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Libyan civil war, also known as the First Libyan Civil War and Libyan Revolution, was an armed conflict in 2011 in the North African country of Libya...
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northeast frontier of Niger. Little more than an army post, the settlement serves as a frontier station controlling travel between Niger and Libya. It is...
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Western Desert Campaign Operation Crusader First Battle of El Alamein Frontier Wire (Libya) Long Range Desert Group Tragedy at Kufra Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007...
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whatever cost in order to free the land for settlement. The Frontier Wire, a barbed wire fence was built from the Mediterranean to the oasis of Al-Jaghbub...
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Jaghbub (redirect from Jaghbub, Libya)
Al Jaghbub Oasis in the eastern Libyan Desert. It is actually closer to the Egyptian town of Siwa than to any Libyan town of note. The oasis is located...
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Italian invasion of Egypt (section Libya)
skirmishing on the frontier and began the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) proper. The Italian strategy was to advance from Libya along the Egyptian...
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Battle of Sidi Barrani (section Frontier skirmishes)
it became the 7th Armoured Division). The Egypt–Libya border was defended by the Egyptian Frontier Force and in June 1940, the headquarters of the 6th...
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Western Desert campaign (redirect from Libya-Egypt Campaign)
1940, it became the 7th Armoured Division. The Egypt–Libya border was defended by the Egyptian Frontier Force and in June 1940, the headquarters of the 6th...
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Operation Crusader (section Dash to the wire)
The operation was intended to bypass Axis defences on the Egyptian–Libyan frontier, defeat the Axis armoured forces near Tobruk, raise the Siege of Tobruk...
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Operation Sonnenblume (category 1941 in Libya)
had made it impossible for the Axis to advance much beyond the frontier wire on the Libyan–Egyptian border by mid-April. As long as the port of Tobruk was...
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United States. Her reports and documentaries were filmed inside Ethiopia, Libya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Russia, the United Arab...
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Action of Agagia (category Battles involving Libya)
Nile. The Senussi crossed the Libyan–Egyptian border on 21 November 1915 to begin the coastal campaign. The Western Frontier Force (WFF, Major-General Alexander...
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Italian war crimes (section Pacification of Libya)
Social Republic starting from the Italo-Turkish War then to Pacification of Libya, the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II...
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Hadrian's Wall (redirect from Hadrian's Wall - Frontiers of the Roman Empire)
Egypt, Judea, Libya and Mauretania. These troubles may have influenced his plan to construct the wall, as well as his construction of frontier boundaries...
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List of accidents and incidents involving the Airbus A320 family (redirect from Frontier Airlines Flight 1326)
destroyed by artillery fire at Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli, Libya. On 14 May 2018, Sichuan Airlines Flight 8633, an Airbus A319-133 registered...
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Operation Compass (category 1940 in Libya)
the Italian and Libyan forces of the 10th Army (Marshal Rodolfo Graziani) in western Egypt and Cyrenaica, the eastern province of Libya, from December...
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urges Libya to stop blocking websites". Agence France-Presse. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010. "Libya", Freedom...
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Siege of Tobruk (category 1941 in Libya)
Allies back across Libya to the Egyptian border. However, Tobruk held out, depriving Rommel of a supply port closer to the Egyptian–Libyan border than Benghazi...
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Siege of Giarabub (category 1941 in Libya)
southernmost Italian frontier post along the border with Egypt. Giarabub had been garrisoned by the Italians since 1925, after being ceded to Libya from Egypt by...
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Operation Bigamy (category 1942 in Libya)
harbour and storage facilities at Benghazi and raid the airfield at Benina in Libya in coordination with the RAF. The raid was part of a deception plan for...
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comparatively isolated, it received a significant amount of aid from Syria, Libya, China, North Korea, Israel, Pakistan, South Yemen and Cuba. The conflict...
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Action at Bir el Gubi (November 1941) (category 1941 in Libya)
Depressed Terrain') took place on 19 November 1941 near Biʾr al-Ġubbiyy, Libya. It was one of the opening engagements of Operation Crusader in North Africa...
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Battle of Beda Fomm (category 1940 in Libya)
the east. When war was declared, the 10th Army moved the 1st Libyan Division to the frontier from Giarabub to Sidi Omar and XXI Corps from Sidi Omar to...
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British capture of Tobruk (category 1941 in Libya)
"Cirene", the last Italian division on Egyptian soil, retreating towards Libya, the 7th Armoured Division pressed on and by 15 December had cut the road...
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