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	Apollonia, Cyrenaica
		Apollonia in Cyrenaica (modern Libya) was founded by Greek colonists and became a significant commercial centre in the southern Mediterranean.
		It served as the harbour of Cyrene, 20 km (12 miles) to the southwest.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Apollonia_Cyrenaica.html (136 words)

	Apollonia (city) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apollonia in Cyrenaica (modern Libya) was founded by Greek colonists and became a significant commercial centre in the southern Mediterranean.
		Christianity was established in the city at an early stage, and bishops from Apollonia were present during the Council of Ephesus (431) and the Council of Chalcedon (451).
		Apollonia, like Dyrrachium further north, was an important port on the Illyrian coast as the most convenient link between Brundusium and northern Greece, and as one of the western starting points of the Via Egnatia leading east to Thessaloniki and Byzantium in Thrace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apollonia_(city) (793 words)

	Welcome to cox&kingsusa.com
		One of the five cities of the Libyan Pentapolis, Teucheira was founded in the 6th century B.C. by Greek settlers, and remained the last Byzantine stronghold in Cyrenaica.
		From Zuwara, travel to nearby Sabratha, the ancient city that began as a Carthaginian trading post, became a permanent settlement in the 4th century B.C., and flourished in the Roman period.
		From Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city and a major commercial port, travel to the attractive area known as the Jebel Akhdar (the Green Mountains) to visit the remains of ancient Teucheira and Ptolemais.
	www.coxandkingsusa.com /L3/afri/africa_L3_31_anc.html (1283 words)

	iqexpand.com
		CYRENAICA CYRENAICA, in ancient geography, a district of the N. African coast, lying between the Syrtis Major and Marmarica, the western limit being Arae Philaenorum, and the eastern a vague line drawn...
		The province consisted classically of five cities, the Pentapolis— Cyrene (near the village of Shahat) with its port of Apollonia (Marsa Susa), Arsinoe (Tocra), Berenice (Benghazi) and Barca (Merj)— of which the chief was the eponymous Cyrene.
		Century I, Cohors II, Legio III andquot;Cyrenaicaandquot;, Caesar's Conquerors, and the affiliated Auxilia, are Ancient Historical, Living History Impressionist Organizations representing...
	cyrenaica.iqexpand.com (429 words)

	Articles - History of Libya
		It was also known as Pentapolis, the "five cities" being Cyrene (near the village of Shahat) with its port of Apollonia (Marsa Susa), Arsinoe (Tocra), Berenice (Bengazi) and Barca (Merj).
		From the oldest and most famous of the Greek colonies the fertile coastal plain took the name of Cyrenaica.
		Cyrenaica, by contrast, was Greek before it was Roman.
	www.sidepoint.com /articles/History_of_Libya (429 words)

	History of Libya
		It was also known as Pentapolis, the "five cities" being Cyrene (near the village of Shahat) with its port of Apollonia (Marsa Susa), Arsinoe (Tocra), Berenice (Bengazi) and Barca (Merj).
		From the oldest and most famous of the Greek colonies the fertile coastal plain took the name of Cyrenaica.
		Cyrenaica, by contrast, was Greek before it was Roman.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/History-of-Libya.htm (429 words)

	History of Libya - free-definition
		Although the Romans left impressive ruins at Cyrene, Leptis Magna, and Sabratha, little else remains today to testify to the presence of these ancient cultures.In the 5th century both Tripoli and Cyrenaica were conquered by the Vandals, whose power was destroyed by the Byzantine general Belisarius in the following century.
		It was also known as Pentapolis, the "five cities" being Cyrene (near the village of Shahat) with its port of Apollonia (Marsa Susa), Arsinoe (Tocra), Berenice (Bengazi) and Barca (Merj).
		From the oldest and most famous of the Greek colonies the fertile coastal plain took the name of Cyrenaica.
	www.free-definition.com /History-of-Libya.html (429 words)

	History of Libya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was also known as Pentapolis, the "five cities" being Cyrene (near the village of Shahat) with its port of Apollonia (Marsa Susa), Arsinoe (Tocra), Berenice (Bengazi) and Barca (Merj).
		From the oldest and most famous of the Greek colonies the fertile coastal plain took the name of Cyrenaica.
		Cyrenaica, by contrast, was Greek before it was Roman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libya/History (429 words)

	History of Libya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was also known as Pentapolis, the "five cities" being Cyrene (near the village of Shahat) with its port of Apollonia (Marsa Susa), Arsinoe (Tocra), Berenice (Bengazi) and Barca (Merj).
		From the oldest and most famous of the Greek colonies the fertile coastal plain took the name of Cyrenaica.
		Cyrenaica, by contrast, was Greek before it was Roman.
	www.southhouston.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/History_of_Libya (429 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks - Variant DBA 24e
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		Apollo fell in love with her and took her to Africa, where he built her a city (called Cyrene), in the region that came to be known as Cyrenaica in eastern Libya.
		In 460 BC, Cyrene overthrew the Battiad Monarchy and became a republic.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/var24e.html (1356 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks - Variant DBA 24e
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		Apollo fell in love with her and took her to Africa, where he built her a city (called Cyrene), in the region that came to be known as Cyrenaica in eastern Libya.
		In 460 BC, Cyrene overthrew the Battiad Monarchy and became a republic.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/var24e.html (1356 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks - Variant DBA 24e
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		Apollo fell in love with her and took her to Africa, where he built her a city (called Cyrene), in the region that came to be known as Cyrenaica in eastern Libya.
		In 460 BC, Cyrene overthrew the Battiad Monarchy and became a republic.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/var24e.html (1356 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks - Variant DBA 24e
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		Apollo fell in love with her and took her to Africa, where he built her a city (called Cyrene), in the region that came to be known as Cyrenaica in eastern Libya.
		In 460 BC, Cyrene overthrew the Battiad Monarchy and became a republic.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/var24e.html (1356 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Libya
		It was also known as Pentapolis, the "five cities" being Cyrene (near the village of Shahat) with its port of Apollonia (Marsa Susa), Arsinoe (Tocra), Berenice (Bengazi) and Barca (Merj).
		Cyrenaica, by contrast, was Greek before it was Roman.
		From the oldest and most famous of the Greek colonies the fertile coastal plain took the name of Cyrenaica.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Libya (1356 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks - Variant DBA 24e
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		Apollo fell in love with her and took her to Africa, where he built her a city (called Cyrene), in the region that came to be known as Cyrenaica in eastern Libya.
		In 460 BC, Cyrene overthrew the Battiad Monarchy and became a republic.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/var24e.html (1356 words)

	KhadijaTeri - Libya - Greek Period
		Cyrene was the mother of the five cities and the name Cyrenaica was derived from Cyrene and became the name of the region.
		Over the next 200 years, four more important Greek cities were founded in the surrounding area by the Greek colonists: Barce (Al Marj); Euhesperides (later called Berenice and presently called Benghazi); Teuchira (later Arsnio and presently Tukrah); and Apollonia (Susah), the port of Cyrene.
		Cyrene became one of the greatest intellectual and artistic centers in the Greek world.
	www.khadijateri.com /greek.html (455 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks, 630-74 BC (I/56)
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		According to Greek mythology, Cyrene (Kyrene) was the daughter of the naiad Creusa and the mortal Hypseus, king of the Lapiths.
		Cyrene was beseiged, and at the height of the seige, a republican coup within the city prompted the oligarchs and upper class to flee, many taking refuge with Thibron and others trekking to Egypt to plead for Ptolemaic intervention.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/I56.html (1801 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks - Variant DBA 24e
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		Cyrene was then annexed by Ptolemy I, who successfully put down the revolt (which was more in the nature of a civil war) in 322 BC.
		Ptolemy hired mercenaries and garrisoned the frontier in anticipation of their advance, but the Cyrene army was forced to turn back to deal with the revolt of the Marmaridae, a tribe of Libyan nomads.
	fanaticus.org /dba/armies/var24e.html (1801 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks - Variant DBA 24e
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		According to Greek mythology, Cyrene (Kyrene) was the daughter of the naiad Creusa and the mortal Hypseus, king of the Lapiths.
		Cyrene was then annexed by Ptolemy I, who successfully put down the revolt (which was more in the nature of a civil war) in 322 BC.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/var24e.html (1801 words)

	Cyrene, Libya - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Cyrene was situated 10 km (6 mi) inland from the port of Apollonia, now Sûsah, or Marsá Sûsah, Libya.
		reduced to rubble by earthquake in 365 AD Cyrene was founded in the 7th century BC by Greek settlers led by Battus I, who established a ruling dynasty and made Cyrene the capital of the ancient kingdom of Cyrenaica.
		Cyrene submitted to the rule of Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great around 331 BC, after which the city was dominated by the Ptolemaic dynasty.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /cyrene_libya.htm (1801 words)

	Cyrenaica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The province consisted classically of five cities, the — Cyrene (near the village of Shahat) with its port of Apollonia (Marsa Susa), Arsinoe (Tocra), Berenice (Benghazi) and Barca (Merj)— of which the chief was the eponymous Cyrene.
		Roman province of Cyrenaica, 120 AD Cyrenaica was a Roman province on the northern coast of Africa between Egypt and Numidia; it had been formerly Greek.
		Although some confusion exists as to the exact territory Rome inherited, by 78 BC it was organised as a province with Crete, until the reforms of Diocletian in 300 changed all of the provincial administrations.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Cyrenaica (1801 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks, 630-74 BC (I/56)
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		The region was fertile and well-watered, with hills and light woods, in sharp contrast to the balance of Libya.
		In 324 BC, a rogue band of 5000 mercenaries under the command of Harpalus (who as later assassinated) and the Spartan captain Thibron took refuge in Crete, where a number of Cyrenean exiles persuaded them to reestablish themselves in Cyrenaicia.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/I56.html (1801 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks, 630-74 BC (I/56)
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		The region was fertile and well-watered, with hills and light woods, in sharp contrast to the balance of Libya.
		In 324 BC, a rogue band of 5000 mercenaries under the command of Harpalus (who as later assassinated) and the Spartan captain Thibron took refuge in Crete, where a number of Cyrenean exiles persuaded them to reestablish themselves in Cyrenaicia.
	www.fanaticus.org /dba/armies/I56.html (1801 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks, 630-74 BC (I/56)
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		The region was fertile and well-watered, with hills and light woods, in sharp contrast to the balance of Libya.
		In 324 BC, a rogue band of 5000 mercenaries under the command of Harpalus (who as later assassinated) and the Spartan captain Thibron took refuge in Crete, where a number of Cyrenean exiles persuaded them to reestablish themselves in Cyrenaicia.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/I56.html (1801 words)

	ptolemais
		However, in the sixth century AD, Ptolemais suffered a reversal when Apollonia became the capital of Upper Libya and entered a period of near destitution, aggravated by a water supply system that had fallen into disrepair, causing the population to move away.
		Despite aid from the Emperor Justinian which returned the city to a relative state of well-being for a while, its death knell was sounded by the Arab conquest of Cyrenaica in the 7th century AD.
		Excavations indicate that the population of Ptolemais enjoyed wealth and a high standard of living.
	www.caravanserai-tours.com /ptolemais.htm (204 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks, 630-74 BC (I/56)
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		In 324 BC, a rogue band of 5000 mercenaries under the command of Harpalus (who as later assassinated) and the Spartan captain Thibron took refuge in Crete, where a number of Cyrenean exiles persuaded them to reestablish themselves in Cyrenaicia.
		The region was fertile and well-watered, with hills and light woods, in sharp contrast to the balance of Libya.
	fanaticus.org /dba/armies/I56.html (1801 words)

	DJERBA-LIBYA 5 DAYS EXCURSION
		Djerba — Ras Gdeir" Libyan-Tunisian boarder" - Nalut - Qasr al-Haj - Tripoli — Tajoura- Leptis Magna - Sirt — Sultan — Ajdabya - Benghazi - Ptolemais - Teuchira - Qasr Libya - Cyrene - Apollonia - Benghazi - Tripoli - Sabratha -Djerba.
		Djerba - Libya excursion can be extended to another 4 days to visit the five magnificent Greco-Roman cities of Cyrenaica region.
		Djerba, Tunisian-Libyan boarder, Nalut, Ghadames, Gheryan, Leptis Magna, Tripoli and Sabratha — Djerba.
	www.unitedtours-libya.com /Djerba.html (1801 words)

	Libya: sites van Cyrenaica
		Al Bayda ligt in het hartje van de Jebel Akhdar (de Groene Bergen), vlakbij Cyrenia dat nu Shahhat heet, Apollonia (nu Susah), Gasr Libya en Slonta.
		Onder koning Idris I was Al Bayda het administratief centrum van en land en zetel van de Sanoussi-beweging, die het de Italiaanse bezetters zo moeilijk zou maken dat ze het gebied pas in 1932, of meer dan twintig jaar na hun aankomst, onder een volledige controle kregen.
		Benghazi, het vroegere Berenice, groeide al in 446 voor onze jaartelling.
	users.pandora.be /wvaerewijck/wlibvcy.html (1015 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks, 630-74 BC (I/56)
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
		In 324 BC, a rogue band of 5000 mercenaries under the command of Harpalus (who as later assassinated) and the Spartan captain Thibron took refuge in Crete, where a number of Cyrenean exiles persuaded them to reestablish themselves in Cyrenaicia.
		The region was fertile and well-watered, with hills and light woods, in sharp contrast to the balance of Libya.
	fanaticus.org /dba/armies/I56.html (1801 words)

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