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Cyrene, also sometimes anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greek colony and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in northeastern Libya in North Africa. It was part of the Pentapolis , an important group of five cities in the region, and gave the area its classical and early modern name Cyrenaica .
Cyrene (Greek Κυρήνη, Kurene) was an ancient Greek colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name 'Cyrenaica' that it has retained to modern times. It lies in a lush valley in the Jebel Akhdar uplands.
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Cyrene, ancient Greek colony in Libya, founded c. 631 bce by a group of emigrants from the island of Thera in the Aegean. Their leader, Battus, became the first king, founding the dynasty of the Battiads, whose members, named alternately Battus and Arcesilaus, ruled Cyrene for eight generations.
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Antiquity. Cyrene (mythology), an ancient Greek mythological figure. Cyrene, Libya, an ancient Greek colony in North Africa (modern Libya) Crete and Cyrenaica, a province of the Roman Empire. Cyrenaica, the region around the city.
Cyrene (modern-day Shahhat, Libya) was a vital cultural center and port of trade in North Africa founded in 631 BCE by Greek colonists from the island of Thera. The city is best known as the birthplace of the philosopher Aristippus of Cyrene, the poet/scholar Callimachus, and the polymath Eratosthenes, as well as from references in the Bible.
The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya is located on a coastal plateau of Libya, beyond the boundaries of the city ( extramural ). In approximately 630 BC Greeks from the island of Thera colonized Cyrene.
