On 06 March 2012, some tribal leaders and militia groups in Eastern Libya declared the region an autonomous region or a self-governing state within a federal Libya.
Called Barqa (in Arabic) or Cyrenaica, the new autonomous region - as per the declaration of its architects - will extend beyond historical Cyrenaica to include parts of oil-rich Fezzan in the Gulf of Sirte and stretch from the Egyptian border in the east to the city of Sirte in the west.
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