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  1. Former province of Libya, a desert region,
  2. with many oases, and with rock paintings from
  3. about 3000 BC. It was captured from Italy
  4. 1942, and placed under French control until
  5. 1951 when it became a province of the
  6. newly-independent United Kingdom of Libya. It
  7. was split into smaller divisions 1963.
  8.