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Cyrenaica (historical region) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 31 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 31.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 022 30 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 22.5000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Historic region of North Africa; northern Barqah was settled by Greek colonists as early as ca. 631 BCE; area was then known as Pentapolis for the five major cities established: Euhesperides, Barce, Cyrene, Apollonia, and Tenchira; Cyrene was original capital; developed around crucial port on Mediterranean, on trade routes west from Alexandria; became a Roman province in combination with Crete in 67 BCE; conquered by Arabs in 643; part of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century; as a result of the Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912), Cyrenaica was ceded to Italy in 1912 with many Italian peasants moving there; was a major theatre of operations during World War II after which Italian colonists evacuated, leaving area 98% Muslim and Arabic-speaking; until 1963 a province of the Kingdom of Libya. |
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| Cyrenaica (preferred,C,V,S)
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| Cirenaica (C,O)
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| Cyrenaika (C,V)
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| Cyrénaïque (C,O)
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| Barqah, Wilāyat (C,V)
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| Barqah (C,V,Arabic (transliterated)-P,U,N)
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| Pentapolis (H,V)
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| historical region (preferred, C) |
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| general region (C) |
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| province (H) |
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of the Roman Empire from 67 BCE; of the United Kingdom of Libya, 1951-1963 |
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Shaḥḥāt .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Lībiyā, Al Jabal al Akhḑar) [7000639] |
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