Cyrene
settlement
ancient Greek and Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya
Location: 32.8167, 21.8500 · Pleiades 373778
Who is recorded here
- Simon of Cyrene birth · 100 BC
- Simon of Cyrene ministry
In art
About the place
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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