Protests appear to have erupted all across the sparsely populated nation of 6m people, but most intensely in the eastern region of Cyrenaica, which has a history of resistance to Mr Qadhafi.

抗争看来已在这个人口稀少只有6百万人的国家里遍地开花，而昔兰尼加东部的局势最为紧张，其曾有反抗卡扎菲的历史。

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Going west, would you believe, when you get into what is now Libya, there was a very important Greek colony of Cyrene and that whole region was called Cyrenaica and it was a Greek.

往西走,你能相信吗,当你进入了现在的利比亚,那里有一个重要的希腊殖民地昔兰尼,整个地区叫昔兰尼加,隶属于希腊

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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