Cyrene

settlement · 750 BC – 2100 AD

An ancient Greek city founded in eastern Libya ca. 630 B.C., Cyrene later became part of the Roman Empire (ca. 74 B.C.). The site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1982.

Coordinates

32.82003, 21.85654

Also known as

Cirene (af), Corone (fra), Cyrena, Cyrenis col. (la), Cyrenis colonia (la), Cyrène (fra), Grennah, Gureine, Kirena (az), Klaudiopolis (grc), Kyrene (br), Kyréna (cs), Shahat (ara), Shaḥḥāt, Shahhat (ayl), qyrnh, shhat, swst, xi lan ni, Κλαυδιόπολις (grc), Κυράνᾱ (grc), Κυρήνη (el), Кирена (ba), Кірэна (be), קירנה, شحات (ara), شحات (ayl), قورينا (ar), 昔兰尼 (zho)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• OpenHistoricalMap · CC0 1.0
  © OpenHistoricalMap contributors
• iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BY
  iDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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