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.

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