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Benghazi (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 32 07 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 32.1167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 020 04 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 20.0667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Modern city situated over Hellenistic and Roman towns; probably first settled from Cyrene; replaced by new city 3rd cen. BCE, slightly to the southwest due to silting of lagoons; largely unoccupied 11-15th century; greatly expanded 1835-1911 during Turkish rule. |
Names: |
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| Banghāzī (preferred,C,V)
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| Bengazi (C,V)
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| Banghazi (C,V)
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| Bengasi (C,V)
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| Benghasi (C,V)
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| Benghazi (C,V,English-P)
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............ | after holy man Ibn-Ghazi, 15th cen. |
| בנגזי (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Berenice (H,V)
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............ | after wife of Ptolemy III, 247 BC |
| Berenicis (H,V)
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| Euesperides (H,V)
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............ | ancient Greek |
| Euhesperides (H,V)
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| Βερενίκη (H,V,Greek,U)
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Benghazi (national district) (P) |
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Benghazi (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled early 6th cen. BC |
| city (C) |
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| provincial capital (C) |
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