Sarra Triangle

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The Sarra Triangle, highlighted in red, and surrounding countries with modern borders

The Sarra Triangle is a strip of land, today located in the Kufra District of Libya, originally colonised by Britain and added to Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. In 1934 an agreement was struck between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Italy, ceding the territory to the Italian colony in Libya. [1] [2] The land is home to a minor oasis called Ma'tan as-Sarra.

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References

  1. International Boundary Study No. 10 – Libya-Sudan Boundary (PDF), 16 October 1961, retrieved 23 January 2020
  2. Brownlie, Ian (1979). African Boundaries: A Legal and Diplomatic Encyclopedia. Institute for International Affairs, Hurst and Co. pp. 133–40.