Cyrene - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Cyrene - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Cyrene ( ) or Kyrene ( ; , ) was an ancient Greek and later Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya. It was the most important of the five Greek cities in the region, known as the pentapolis. It gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica, which it has retained to modern times. Read more on Wikipedia
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