Cyrenaica

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Cyrenaica is a historic coastal region in eastern Libya, centered around the ancient Greek city of Cyrene and long significant as a cultural and political area in North Africa.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical region
region of Libya
ancientName Kyrenaïkē
autonomousStatusEnd 1963
autonomousStatusStart 1951
borderedBy Egypt
Fezzan
Mediterranean Sea
Tripolitania
colonizedBy Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece

Greeks
surface form: Theran Greeks
containsCity Al Bayda
Benghazi
Cyrene
Derna
Tobruk
country Libya
ethnicGroup Arabs
Berbers
Tebu
historicalCapital Cyrene
historicalEra Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece

Byzantine Empire
surface form: Byzantine period

Hellenistic period
Italian colonial period
Libya
surface form: Kingdom of Libya

Ottoman Empire
surface form: Ottoman period

Roman Antiquity
surface form: Roman period

modern Libya
historicalLanguage Ancient Greek
Latin
knownFor ancient Greek city of Cyrene
desert hinterland
fertile Jabal al Akhdar uplands
language Arabic
locatedIn Fezzan
surface form: eastern Libya
locatedOn Mediterranean Sea
majorCity Benghazi
Derna
Tobruk
mergedInto unified Libyan province system
modernAdministrativeCenter Benghazi
namedAfter Cyrene
partOf Libya
North Africa
playedRoleIn 2011 Libyan Civil War
surface form: Libyan Civil War (2011)

Libyan resistance to Italian rule
religion Sunni Islam
significance cultural center in North Africa
political center in eastern Libya
subregion Cyrenaican Desert
Jabal al Akhdar
wasAutonomousProvinceOf Libya
surface form: Kingdom of Libya
wasColonyOf Kingdom of Italy
wasPartOf Italian Libya
wasProvinceOf Byzantine Empire
Ottoman Empire
Roman Empire

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Jabal al Akhdar partOf Cyrenaica
necropolis of Cyrene partOf Cyrenaica
subject surface form: Necropolis of Cyrene
this entity surface form: Cyrenaica region
Sidi Rezegh partOf Cyrenaica
Khalifa Haftar placeOfBirth Cyrenaica
Italian Libya predecessor Cyrenaica
this entity surface form: Italian Cyrenaica
Al-Ahly SC (Benghazi) region Cyrenaica
Al-Nasr SC (Benghazi) region Cyrenaica
Arete of Cyrene region Cyrenaica
Bir el Gubi region Cyrenaica
Derna region Cyrenaica
Doric Greek region Cyrenaica
Tobruk region Cyrenaica
Battus I of Cyrene regionRuled Cyrenaica
Ptolemy I Soter ruled Cyrenaica
Cyrenaican Desert surrounds Cyrenaica
Italo-Turkish War theatre Cyrenaica
this entity surface form: Cyrenaican coast