In 1912, Italy and Turkey signed a peace treaty at Lausanne, whereby Cyrenaica and Tripoli gained autonomy and the Dodecanese Islands were restored to Turkey.

CNN: Sunday,

The climatic tables for Tripoli in western Libya (former province of Tripolitania) and Benghazi in eastern Libya (ancient Cyrenaica) are representative of conditions around the year in the coastal regions.

BBC: Libya

In the run-up to polling day, angry federalists in eastern Libya who want more power for the oil-rich coastal province of Cyrenaica (Barqa in Arabic) stormed several polling centres in Benghazi, the main city of the east, where the revolt against Qaddafi began a year and a half ago, and blockaded oil terminals.

ECONOMIST: Libya��s election