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Libya and Benghazi
Libya gained its independence from the Italians in 1951. The Western powers appointed a king named Idris to rule over the country. Libya's new national assembly wrote their first constitution that same year. No one could agree where the capital would be, so they decided to rotate capitals every two years between Tripoli and Benghazi.