Cyrene
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors:
Michelle Willoughby, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Noura Alavi, R. Talbert, Justin Charlton
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Oct 26, 2020 01:36 PM
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History
An ancient Greek city founded in eastern Libya ca. 630 B.C., Cyrene later became part of the Roman empire (ca. 74 B.C.). The site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1982.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/373778
32.820348545, 21.8565546881
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM Location of Cyrene Archaeological Area (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Claudiopolis (750 BC - AD 640)
- Cyrene (Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)
- Cyrene (English, modern)
- Cyrene connection Cyrene - Apollonia Road (unspecified date range)
- Cyrene part of (regional) Pentapolis (unspecified date range)
- Apollonia/Sozousa connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
- Sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
- So-called Caesareum of Cyrene connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
- So-called House of Hesychios connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
- So-called House of Jason Magnus connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
- So-called House of the Doric Peristyle connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
- So-called Temple of Aphrodite connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
- So-called Temple of Cybele connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
- So-called Temple of the Dioscuri connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
- So-called Theatre 2 located at Cyrene (unspecified date range)
- So-called Theatre 3 connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
- Temple of Zeus at Cyrene connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
- Theater of Cyrene located at Cyrene (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- Arachne 8002723: Kyrene / Cyrene Κυρήνη / Kyrene, Kyrene
- BAtlas 38 C1 Cyrene
- Marengo 1988
- New Pauly Cyrene
- PECS (Perseus) CYRENE (Shahat) Libya
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) CYRÉNE
- Stucchi 1975
- ToposText Cyrene (Libya)
- WHL 190: Archaeological Site of Cyrene
- White et al. 1998
- Wikipedia (English) Cyrene
- Wright 1957
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 38 C1 Cyrene
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ain Shahat, Grennah
D.J. Mattingly, Michelle Willoughby, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Noura Alavi, R. Talbert, and Justin Charlton, 'Cyrene: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/373778> [accessed: 24 April 2025]
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