What is the origin of the name Libya?

Answer 1

The origin of the name Libya is the ancient Berber tribe Ribu or RB. This Berber (or Tamazight) tribe inhabited the eastern shores of Libya, all the way to the Nile river, and hence the Egyptians were among the first people to preserve this name in writing. Greek students, who studied in Egypt, had adopted the name with the usual change of R to L, and hence Libya was born. The name then went to be used for the whole of Africa by the Greeks before the Romans named it Africa. Libya today is inhabited by both: Berbers and Arabs, the latter of whom arrived with Islam in the seventh century AD.