Cyrenaica

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Cyrenaica is a historic coastal region in eastern Libya, centered around the ancient Greek city of Cyrene and long significant as a cultural and political area in North Africa.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical region
region of Libya
ancientName Kyrenaïkē
autonomousStatusEnd 1963
autonomousStatusStart 1951
borderedBy Egypt
Fezzan
Mediterranean Sea
Tripolitania
colonizedBy Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity

Theran Greeks
linked to: Greeks
containsCity Al Bayda
Benghazi
Cyrene
Derna
Tobruk
country Libya
ethnicGroup Arabs
Berbers
Tebu
historicalCapital Cyrene
historicalEra Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity

Byzantine period
linked to: Byzantine Empire

Hellenistic period
Italian colonial period
Kingdom of Libya
linked to: Libya

Ottoman period
linked to: Ottoman Empire

Roman period
linked to: Roman Antiquity

modern Libya
historicalLanguage Ancient Greek
Latin
knownFor ancient Greek city of Cyrene
desert hinterland
fertile Jabal al Akhdar uplands
language Arabic
locatedIn eastern Libya
linked to: Fezzan
locatedOn Mediterranean Sea
majorCity Benghazi
Derna
Tobruk
mergedInto unified Libyan province system
modernAdministrativeCenter Benghazi
namedAfter Cyrene
partOf Libya
North Africa
playedRoleIn Libyan Civil War (2011)
Libyan resistance to Italian rule
religion Sunni Islam
significance cultural center in North Africa
political center in eastern Libya
subregion Cyrenaican Desert
Jabal al Akhdar
wasAutonomousProvinceOf Kingdom of Libya
linked to: Libya
wasColonyOf Kingdom of Italy
wasPartOf Italian Libya
wasProvinceOf Byzantine Empire
Ottoman Empire
Roman Empire

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Libya historicalRegion Cyrenaica
Benghazi locatedIn eastern Libya
linked to: Cyrenaica
Benghazi historicalRegion Cyrenaica
Benghazi isRegionalCapitalOf Cyrenaica (de facto)
linked to: Cyrenaica
Operation Crusader location Cyrenaica
Second Libyan Civil War location Cyrenaica region
linked to: Cyrenaica
Cyrene locatedIn eastern Libya
linked to: Cyrenaica
Cyrene locatedIn Cyrenaica
Cyrene capitalOf Cyrenaica
Operation Compass location eastern Libya
linked to: Cyrenaica
Battle of Gazala location Cyrenaica, Libya
linked to: Cyrenaica
Hellenistic kingdoms hasPart Kingdom of Cyrenaica
linked to: Cyrenaica
Ptolemaic Kingdom hasPart Cyrenaica
Roman navy garrisonedAt Cyrenaica
Hellenistic period hasPart Cyrenaica
Doric Greek region Cyrenaica
Al-Ahly SC (Benghazi) region Cyrenaica
Al-Nasr SC (Benghazi) region Cyrenaica
Kitos War location Cyrenaica
Belhamed partOf Cyrenaica
Brega locatedInHistoricalRegion Cyrenaica
Battus I of Cyrene regionRuled Cyrenaica
Sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene locatedIn Cyrenaica
subject linked to: Sanctuary of Apollo
Sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene associatedWith Greek colonization of Cyrenaica
subject linked to: Sanctuary of Apollo
linked to: Cyrenaica
Apollonia (port of Cyrene) locatedOn coast of Cyrenaica
linked to: Cyrenaica
Khalifa Haftar placeOfBirth Cyrenaica
Bir el Gubi region Cyrenaica
Necropolis of Cyrene partOf Cyrenaica region
subject linked to: necropolis of Cyrene
linked to: Cyrenaica
Derna region Cyrenaica
Derna historicalRegion Cyrenaica
Operation Battleaxe location Cyrenaica
Ajdabiya locatedInRegion Cyrenaica
Sidi Rezegh partOf Cyrenaica
Italo-Turkish War theatre Cyrenaican coast
linked to: Cyrenaica