Cyrene, Jabal al Akhdar, Libya

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.
  • Location: Shahhat, Jabal al Akhdar, Cyrenaica, Libya
  • Alternative name: Kyrene
  • Region: Jebel Akhdar
  • Builder: Colonists from Thera led by Battus I
  • Founded: 631 BC
  • Abandoned: 7th century AD
  • Periods: Archaic Greece to Umayyad Caliphate

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