Libu

Libuš ( ) is one of the municipal districts of Prague. It is located in the southern part of Prague in the administrative district of Prague 4 and consists of the cadastral areas of Libuš and Písnice. Both Libuš and Písnice were once independent villages near Prague. Libuš was attached to Prague in 1968 and Písnice in 1974; now they are both part of the Prague City in Prague-Libuš municipal district. The history of Libuš goes back probably to the 13th century, but it is not documented. The first written information is from 1321, when Prague citizens gained power over the Libuš fort. Better information begins in the 17th century, when there was a pub on the road from Prague to the south. Area: 5.24 km 2 Population: 9,702

(1820)]] The Libu ( ; also transcribed Rebu, Libo, Lebu) were an Ancient Libyan tribe of Berber origin, from which the name Libya derives. ==Early history== tile from the throne of Pharaoh Ramesses III depicting a tattooed ancient Libyan chief ( to 1153 BC).]] Their tribal origin in ancient Libya is first attested in Egyptian language texts from the New Kingdom of Egypt, especially from the XXth dynasty.The earliest occurrence is in a Ramesses II inscription. There were no vowels in the Egyptian script. The name Libu is written as rbw in Egyptian hieroglyphs. In the Great Karnak Inscription, the pharaoh Merneptah describes the Libu as men with pale complexion, tattooed, and with dark hair and eyes. Hostilities between Egypt and Libya broke out in regnal year 5 (1208 BCE), but the coalition of Libu and Sea Peoples led by the chief of the Libu, Meryey, was defeated. Libu appears as an ethnic name on the Merneptah Stele. Ramesses III defeated the Libyans in the 5th year of his reign, but six years later the Libyans joined the Meshwesh, invaded the western Nile Delta, and were defeated once again. This name Libu was taken over by the Greeks of Cyrenaica, who co-existed with them. Geographically, the name of this tribe was adopted by the Greeks for "Cyrenaica" as well as for northwestern Africa in general. In the neo-Punic inscriptions, Libu was written as Lby for the masculine noun, and Lbt for the feminine noun of Libyan. The name supposedly was used as an ethnic name in those inscriptions. ==Great Chiefs of the Libu== In the Western Delta sometime during the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt a realm of the Libu flourished under the "Great Chiefs of the Libu". Those rulers soon formed a dynasty, and they often had local "Chiefs of the Ma(shuash)" as their subordinates. The dynasty culminated with the chiefdom of Tefnakht who, despite holding both the titles of "Great Chief of the Libu" and of "Chief of the Ma" at Sais, was more probably of Egyptian ethnicity rather than either Libu or Ma. Later, Tefnakht claimed for himself even the pharaonic titles, founding the 24th Dynasty. Below lists the succession of the known "Great Chiefs of the Libu". They used to date their monuments following the regnal years of the contemporary pharaoh of the 22nd Dynasty. ==See also== Ancient Egypt Ancient Libya Garamantes Meshwesh ==References==

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