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Libya became an independent, sovereign, federal kingdom under the Amir of Cyrenaica, Mohammed Idris et Senussi, as King of the United Kingdom of Libya, on 24 Deo. 1951, when the British Residents in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica and the French Resident in the Fezzan transferred their remaining powers to the federal government of Libya, in pursuance of decisions passed by the United Nations in 1949 and 1950. The King is married to his cousin Fatima and to Aliyah Lamlun. In Nov. 1956 the King announced the appointment of H.R.H. Prince Al Hassan Rida as Crown Prince unless he himself should have an heir.
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Casserly, G., Tripolilania. London, 1943
Evans-Pritchard, E. E., The Sanusi of Cyrenaica. Oxford, 1949
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Steinberg, S.H. (1957). Libya. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270862_49
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