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	Cyrenaica
		Cyrenaica, however, rests mainly on or beneath a plateau, and the inhabitable areas are mainly oases.
		The population of Cyrenaica is comprised of arabized Berbers, speaking Arabic.
		The largest city of Cyrenaica is Benghazi with 660,000 inhabitants.
	i-cias.com /e.o/cyrenaica.htm (433 words)

	CYRENAICA - LoveToKnow Article on CYRENAICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After all N. Africa had passed to Rome, and Cyrenaica itself, bequeathed by Apion, the last Ptolemaic sovereign, was become (in combination with Crete) a Roman province (after 96 B.C.), this competition told~ more severely than ever, and the Greek colonists, ~rwn weaker, found themselves less able to hold their own against the Libyan population.
		A great revolt of the Jewish settlers in the time of Trajan settled the fate of Cyrene and Barca; the former is mentionedby Ammianus Marcellinus in the 4th century A.D. as urbs deserta, and Synesius, a native, describes it in the following century as a vast ruin at the mercy of the noniads.
		Geologically and structurally Cyrenaica is a mass of Miocene limestone tilted up steeply from the Mediterranean and falling inland by a gentle descent to sea-level again at the line of depression, which runs from the gulf of Sidra through Aujila to Siwa:
	80.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CY/CYRENAICA.htm (1362 words)

	Cyrenaica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cyrenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya.
		Cyrenaica was a Roman province on the northern coast of Africa between Egypt and Numidia; it had been formerly Greek.
		It was a hartland of the Muslim Senussi order, and ended up amagalgamated with Tripolitania (in the west) and Fezzan (in the south) into Libya, first as an Italian colony (occupied since 1911; it had two of the four provices: Bengazi and Derna), later as independent kingdom in 1951, finally a republic in 1969.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyrenaica (521 words)

	Libya. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Cyrenaica is fringed in the southwest by the Tibesti Massif (located mostly in Chad), which includes Libya’s loftiest point, Picco Bette (c.7,500 ft/2,290 m).
		Tripolitania and Cyrenaica had divergent histories for most of the period up to their conquest by the Ottoman Empire in the mid-16th cent.
		In 1934, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica were formally united to form the colony of Libya; Fazzan was administered as part of Tripolitania.
	www.bartleby.com /65/li/Libya.html (2498 words)

	Libya Medieval Cyrenaica and Fezzan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cyrenaica lay outside the orbit of the Maghribi dynasties, its orientation on Egypt.
		The beduin tribes of Baraqah, as Cyrenaica was known to the Arabs, willingly accepted no authority other than that of their own chieftains.
		In the fifteenth century, merchants from Tripoli revived the markets in some towns, but Cyrenaica's main source of income was from the pilgrims and caravans traveling between the Maghrib and Egypt, who purchased protection from the beduins.
	www.country-studies.com /libya/medieval-cyrenaica-and-fezzan.html (243 words)

	Cyrenaica
		Cyrenaica, however, rests mainly on or beneath a plateau, and the inhabitable areas are mainly oases.
		The population of Cyrenaica is comprised of arabized Berbers, speaking Arabic.
		The largest city of Cyrenaica is Benghazi with 660,000 inhabitants.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/cyrenaica.htm (444 words)

	Cyrenaica
		Cyrenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya.
		Cyrenaica was a Roman province on the northern coast of Africa between Egypt and Numidia; it had been formerly Greek.
		On 1 January 1934, Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and Fezzan unite as Libya, still Italian, till the British take over in 1940-41 and appoint Military governors and Administrators, finally a Resident for the decolonisation in 1951, as independent kingdom (it had two of the four new provinces: Bengazi and Derna), finally a republic in 1969.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DCirenaica%26type%3Den (587 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cyrenaica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ptolemais or Ptolemaida was one of the ancient capitals of Cyrenaica, located near the modern town of Tolmeita in Libya.
		It was begun in the reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius, according to a still-unmutilated dedicatory inscription, and finished under Marcus Aurelius.
		In 1929 Tripoli and Cyrenaica were united as one colonial province, then in 1934, as Italy struggled to retain colonial power, the classical name "Libya" was revived as the official name of the colony, which was split into four provinces, Tripoli, Misurata, Bengasi, and Derna.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cyrenaica (2433 words)

	Legio III Cyrenaica
		Legio III Cyrenaica: one of the Roman legions.
		Originally, it was stationed in Upper Egypt (at Thebes?), where the presence of soldiers of III Cyrenaica is attested at Berenice and near the stone quarries in the Thebaid.
		A subunit of III Cyrenaica took part in the siege of Jerusalem in 70.
	www.livius.org /le-lh/legio/iii_cyrenaica.html (828 words)

	Cyrenaica. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Greeks colonized N Cyrenaica in the 7th cent.
		In 642 Arab armies conquered Cyrenaica and many Arabs settled in the region from the 9th to 11th cent.
		The Sanusi Muslim brotherhood was founded (1843) in Cyrenaica and gained many adherents there.
	www.bartleby.com /65/cy/Cyrenaica.html (174 words)

	Cyrene and the Cyrenaica
		At this time, there was civil war in Cyrenaica: a group of exiles had invited a mercenary leader named Thibron, who happened to own a large sum of money (the amount of taxes once paid by Babylonia).
		In 163, he was made governor of the Cyrenaica, but he met with much opposition, which he overcame with support from Rome.
		However, the Romans recovered territory, new cities were founded (e.g., Theodorias), and it was only in the mid-seventh century that the Cyrenaica was lost to the Byzantine empire.
	www.livius.org /ct-cz/cyrenaica/cyrenaica.html (1679 words)

	African Kingdoms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To threaten Cyrenaica and perhaps Cyprus is to invoke the wrath of Rome.
		He repudiated her to marry for political reasons his full sister Arsinoe II, who was the widow of the same Lysimachus I. Ptolemy II died in 246 BC at the age of 63, and was succeeded by his eldest son Ptolemy Euergetes.
		Ptolemy VIII's will left Cyrenaica to his illegitimate son Ptolemy Apion, while Egypt and Cyprus were given to his widow Cleopatra III Kokke, and whichever of his two sons by her she might choose as her associate.
	www.donaldhs.vic.edu.au /home/spotter/African_Kingdoms.html (1925 words)

	Cyrenaica -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Ruled by a succession of Egyptian-based dynasties in the later Middle Ages, Cyrenaica came under the nominal suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire after the 15th century; in the mid-19th century the region became the centre of the Sanusiyah religious brotherhood and dynasty.
		As a result of the Italo-Turkish War (1911–12), Cyrenaica, with Tripolitania, was ceded to Italy in 1912, and by 1940 about 50,000 Italian peasant colonists were converting northern Cyrenaica into the semblance of an Italian province, cultivating cereals, vines, and fruit trees.
		Cyrenaica's coast was visited by Cretan fishermen in the 7th century, and the Greeks became aware that it was the only area in North...
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9028424?tocId=9028424 (947 words)

	Cyrenaica - Province of the Roman Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the conquests of Alexander, Cyrenaica fell completely under the sway of Macedonian rule in 331 BC and would remain so indirectly for another 250 years.
		Though it only served in Cyrenaica a short time, as it was stationed in Egypt throughout most of its history, the legion proudly carried the name of the province in the service of Rome for nearly five centuries.
		Though Cyrenaica remained relatively quiet through this problem, Hadrian punished the Jews throughout the empire severely, essentially eliminating resistance for the remaining life of the empire.
	www.unrv.com /provinces/cyrenaica.php (806 words)

	Libya Libya and the Romans - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		The vast territory was defended by one locally recruited legion (5,500 men) in Cyrenaica and the elements of another in Tripolitania, reinforced by tribal auxiliaries on the frontier.
		The former came under the jurisdiction of the Latin patriarch, the bishop of Rome, and the latter under that of the Coptic (Egyptian) patriarch of Alexandria.
		Cyrenaica, which had remained an outpost of the Byzantine Empire during the Vandal period, also took on the characteristics of an armed camp.
	www.workmall.com /wfb2001/libya/libya_history_libya_and_the_romans.html (977 words)

	Libya Regions - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, ...
		In Cyrenaica there are fewer coastal oases, and the Marj Plain--the lowland area corresponding to the Jifarah Plain of Tripolitania--covers a much smaller area.
		In 1969 the revolutionary government officially changed the regional designation of Tripolitania to Western Libya, of Cyrenaica to Eastern Libya, and of Fezzan to Southern Libya; however, the old names were intimately associated with the history of the area, and during the 1970s they continued to be used frequently.
		Cyrenaica comprises 51 percent, Fezzan 33 percent, and Tripolitania 16 percent of the country's area.
	www.photius.com /countries/libya/geography/libya_geography_regions.html (938 words)

	Libya History
		with the exception of some of its coastal town, Cyrenaica was relatively untouched by the political influence of the regimes that claimed it but were unable to assert their authority in the hinterland.
		The provences of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania were treated as separate colonies, and Fezzan was organized as a military territory.
		In 1920 an accord was reached between Italy and the Sanusi leaders that confirmed Idris as amir of Cyrenaica and recognized his vertual indipendence in an immense area in the interior that encompassed all the principal oasis.
	www.germantravelnetwork.com /Html/D/Arabia/Libya/History.htm (2469 words)

	Libya - Medieval Cyrenaica and Fezzan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cyrenaica lay outside the orbit of the Maghribi dynasties, its orientation on Egypt.
		The beduin tribes of Baraqah, as Cyrenaica was known to the Arabs, willingly accepted no authority other than that of their own chieftains.
		In the fifteenth century, merchants from Tripoli revived the markets in some towns, but Cyrenaica's main source of income was from the pilgrims and caravans traveling between the Maghrib and Egypt, who purchased protection from the beduins.
	countrystudies.us /libya/13.htm (243 words)

	Cyrenaica - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Colonized by the ancient Greeks, Cyrenaica originally extended along the African coast from what is now the...
		In Cyrenaica the limestone Jabal al Akhḑar (Green Mountains) near the Mediterranean coast reach as high as 900 m (3,000 ft).
		Barca, ancient city in the Cyrenaica region of northern Africa.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Cyrenaica (111 words)

	AllRefer.com - Libya - Cyrenaica and the Greeks \| Libyan Information Resource
		Later, a federation of the Pentapolis was formed that was customarily ruled by a king drawn from the Ptolemaic royal house.
		Ptolemy Apion, the last Greek ruler, bequeathed Cyrenaica to Rome, which formally annexed the region in 74 B.C. and joined it to Crete as a Roman province.
		The economic and cultural development of the Pentapolis was unaffected by the turmoil its political life generated.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/libya/libya11.html (576 words)

	Legio III Cyrenaica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Legio III Cyrenaica, (from Cyrenaica, a Roman province), was a Roman legion probably levied by Mark Antony around 36 BC, when he was governor of Cyrenaica.
		In the internal turmoils of the Roman Empire, III Cyrenaica tended to follow defeated candidates to the throne like Avidius Cassius (vs. Marcus Aurelius in 175) and Pescennius Niger (vs. Septimius Severus in 192).
		After the rebellion of Zenobia in 267-272, III Cyrenaica was transferred to an unclear location, although the legion was in Bostra (Syria) in the beginning of the 5th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legio_III_Cyrenaica (306 words)

	Cambridge Expedition to Cyrenaica 1959 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During 1951-2 a British Army party, known as the "Deep Reconnaissance Unit", explored a large number of the caves and potholes that are developed on the Jebel and were responsible for finding the cave of Am Dubbussia, from which water is now being extracted to supply the new capital of el Beida.
		Although the Jebel receives a higher rainfall than the remainder of Cyrenaica, much of the water is wasted either by absorption into the underground drainage system or by direct surface runoff, in the latter case causing heavy soil erosion.
		Perhaps the greatest difficulty encountered in exploring the potholes and caves of Cyrenaica is the initial problem of finding them; although over a hundred occurrences are now known they probably represent only a small fraction of the total.
	cucc.survex.com /jnl/others/libya.htm (6838 words)

	Cyrenaica
		Located directly to the west of Egypt, Cyrenaica was colonized by Dorian Greeks in the late seventh century BCE.
		The country became a Roman province in 74 BCE, and by that time the Jewish population had expanded so greatly that Strabo documents that the Jews living in the capital city of Cyrene were assigned their own special classification.
		Strabo’s comments also imply that more than one Jewish politeuma was established in Cyrenaica, and indeed the discovery of two inscriptions from Berenice mentioning a "politeuma of the Jews" confirms this hypothesis.
	www.pohick.org /sts/cyrenaica.html (463 words)

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