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Cyrene (deserted settlement) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 32 49 30 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 32.8250 decimal degrees |
| Long: 021 51 29 E degrees minutes |
Long: 21.8580 decimal degrees |
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Note: Near modern Shaḥḥāt; ancient Greek colony in Libya, founded ca. 631 BCE by a group of emigrants from the island of Thera in the Aegean. Under Ptolemaic Egypt (from 323 BCE), Cyrene became one of the great intellectual centers of the Classical world; site of the largest ancient Greek city on the continent of Africa. Was original capital of Cyrenaica and a city of Pentapolis; declined in the 3rd century due to attack by tribesmen and earthquake. It was abandoned by the 4th century CE. |
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| Cyrene (preferred,C,V,S,English-P,U)
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| Kyrinaiki (C,V)
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| Κυρήνη (C,V,Ancient Greek,U)
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| Kyrene (C,V)
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| Cirene (C,V)
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| Gureine (C,V)
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Cyrene (deserted settlement) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| deserted settlement (preferred, C) |
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| World Heritage Site (C) |
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| archaeological site (C) |
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| inhabited place (H) |
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| colony (H) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| near/adjacent to .... |
Shaḥḥāt .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Lībiyā, Al Jabal al Akhḑar) [7000639] |
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