place
Cyrene, Libya
Also known as Cyrenaica
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32.8167, 21.8500 · Wikidata Q44112 P625 (accessed 2026-11-12) · On the map
- founded or start. -630high · Wikidata P571
Greek city in Libya; Simon of Cyrene carried Jesus' cross, and Synesius was a later son of the region.
Wikipedia extract
Cyrene, also sometimes anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greek colony and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in northeastern Libya in North Africa. It was part of the Pentapolis, an important group of five cities in the region, and gave the area its classical and early modern name Cyrenaica.
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- Cyrene, Libya · Wikipedia contributorsAccessed 2026-11-12 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikidata Q44112 · Wikidata contributorsAccessed 2026-11-12 · CC0 1.0
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1907-1912) article · Various (Catholic Encyclopedia)Accessed 2026-11-12 · 1907-1912 text public domain in the US; dated and confessional, use for history of reception
- Pleiades place 373778 · Pleiades contributorsAccessed 2026-11-12 · CC BY 3.0
Authority files
- Q44112
- Pleiades 373778
- Catholic Encyclopedia 04591b
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