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Lep·tis Mag·na (l

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An ancient city of northern Africa in present-day Libya east of Tripoli. Founded by Phoenicians, it flourished as a port during Roman times and is today noted for its impressive ruins.

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Tripoli	Tripoli, whose Lepcis Magna site of Roman ruins is reputed to be the largest and best preserved such site in the world, is already twinned with Madrid, Belgrade and Sarajevo. 'Libya link would be such a boost' by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) To give one simple example: anyone in the second century who visited the great theatre in Lepcis Magna could see that its sponsor, Annobal Tapapius Rufus, son of Himilcho Tapapius, had been commemorated in the Augustan era with a Latin inscription of a typical sort--except that the inscription was not typical at all because it was incised bilingually in Punic as well as Latin and could still be read by Punic speakers in the second century. Apuleius and Carthage by Bradley, Keith / Ancient Narrative Evidence gathered from artefacts in the museum shows Africans were represented at all levels of Roman society - from Victor, a freed slave from Morocco, to the Emperor Septimius Severus, who came to this area from Lepcis Magna in Libya, with the intention of conquering Scotland. Colour was no bar to Hadrian's heroes by The Journal (Newcastle, England)	leopardess Leopardi leopardskin leopardwood Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski Leopold I Leopold II Leopold III Leopold Kronecker Leopold Stokowski Leopoldville Léopoldville leotard leotards Leotia lubrica lep Lepadidae Lepadite Lepadoid Lepal Lepanto Lepas Lepas fascicularis Lepaya Lepcha Lepcis Lepechinia Lepechinia calycina leper leper colony leper lily Lepered Leperize Leperous Lepid Lepidine Lepidium Lepidium alpina Lepidium sativum lepido- Lepidobotryaceae lepidobotrys Lepidochelys Lepidochelys kempii Lepidochelys olivacea lepidocrocite Lepidocybium Lepidocybium flavobrunneum Lepidodendraceae Lepidodendrales Lepidodendrid	Lepadena Lepadena Lepadena Lepadidae Lepadite Lepadoid Lepadomorpha Lepadomorpha LEPAG Lepal Lepanto Lepanto Lepanto Investment and Development Co Lepanto, Battle Lepanto, Battle of Lepanto, Battle of Lepaord Lepaord Lepaord Leparkour Lepas Lepas Lepas fascicularis Lepaya Lepaya LEPC Lepcha Lepcha Lepchas Lepchas Lepcis Lepcis Magna Lepcis Magna LEPD LEPD Lepechinia Lepechinia calycina LEPECVD LEPEDA LEPEDEA Lepekhin, Ivan Lepekhin, Ivan Ivanovich Lepel Lepelle Northern Water Lepelletier, Edmond Adolphe Lepenski Vir Lepeophtherius salmonis leper leper leper Leper colony Leper colony Leper colony leper lily leper lily Leper tanker Leper tanker Leper tanker Leper tanker leper's squint Leperacy

Tripoli, whose Lepcis Magna site of Roman ruins is reputed to be the largest and best preserved such site in the world, is already twinned with Madrid, Belgrade and Sarajevo.

'Libya link would be such a boost' by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)

To give one simple example: anyone in the second century who visited the great theatre in Lepcis Magna could see that its sponsor, Annobal Tapapius Rufus, son of Himilcho Tapapius, had been commemorated in the Augustan era with a Latin inscription of a typical sort--except that the inscription was not typical at all because it was incised bilingually in Punic as well as Latin and could still be read by Punic speakers in the second century.

Apuleius and Carthage by Bradley, Keith / Ancient Narrative

Evidence gathered from artefacts in the museum shows Africans were represented at all levels of Roman society - from Victor, a freed slave from Morocco, to the Emperor Septimius Severus, who came to this area from Lepcis Magna in Libya, with the intention of conquering Scotland.

Colour was no bar to Hadrian's heroes by The Journal (Newcastle, England)

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