Egypt–Libya border

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Map of the Egypt-Libya border

The Egypt–Libya border (

Arabic: الحدود المصرية الليبية) is 1,115 km (693 mi) in length and runs from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the tripoint with Sudan in the south.[1]

Description

The border starts in the north on the Mediterranean coast at the Gulf of Sallum. It then proceeds overland roughly southwards via series of irregular lines that frequently veer south-west or south-east, before reaching the

Libyan desert.[2]

History

Egypt, though nominally part of the

Vilayet of Tripolitania, with a vaguely defined border between the Vilayet and Egypt based on an 1841 Ottoman firman, which placed the border further to the east than its current position.[2][3]

In September 1911 Italy invaded Tripolitania, and the

Treaty of Ouchy was signed the following year by which the Ottomans formally ceded sovereignty of the area over to Italy.[4][5][2] Italy organised the newly conquered regions into the colonies of Italian Cyrenaica and Italian Tripolitania and gradually began pushing further south; in 1934 they united the two territories into Italian Libya.[6][2]

British troops at the Frontier Wire in 1940

Egypt achieved full independence in 1922.

Senussi rebels, had constructed a fence
along much of the frontier in the 1920s-30s.

During the

Bardiyah to be included within Egypt.[3] These claims appear to have been abandoned by the early 1950s.[2]

Relations between the two states since then have largely been cordial, however tensions rose in the 1970s, due largely the more assertive

civil war
in Libya.

Settlements near the border

Egypt

Libya

See also

References

  1. ^ CIA World Factbook – Libya, retrieved 22 January 2020
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Brownlie, Ian (1979). African Boundaries: A Legal and Diplomatic Encyclopedia. Institute for International Affairs, Hurst and Co. pp. 102–09.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i International Boundary Study No. 61 Egypt-Libya Boundary (PDF), 15 January 1966, retrieved 23 January 2020
  4. doi:10.2307/2212446
  5. ^ "Treaty of Lausanne, October, 1912". Mount Holyoke College, Program in International Relations. Archived from the original on 2021-10-25. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  6. ^ "HISTORY OF LIBYA". HistoryWorld.
  7. ^ "Both Egypt, Libya Accept Cease-Fire, Arafat Says". The Los Angeles Times. 26 July 1977. pp. B1, B8.
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