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Multi-periodSite Name: Cyrene Alternative Name: CyrenaicaCountry: Libya
NOTE: This site is 0.309 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Benghazi Nearest Village: Al Bayda'
Latitude: 32.818000N Longitude: 21.858910E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Early Greek settlement from aroud 633 BCE founded by Batus I. He emigrated from Thera with a couple of hundred people on account of food shortages and eventually settled on the North Coast of Libya after being told by the oracle of Delphi to do so. The site is essentially located on about 4 general areas at 3 different levels. The city centre position is given for the forum. The temple of Zeus, which measures 70 metres by 32 metres which has 17 by 8 Doric columns, is about 500 metres away. This has been extensively renovated since 1957 until 1974. At a lower level, there is the sanctuary of Apollo as well as the sacred spring, which made the site viable. The 4th century BCE temple of Apollo had 11 by 6 Doric but unfluted columns. It is completely surrounded by a multitude of other temples, altars and the Roman Baths. Below that, there is a series of necropolises of rock cut tombs and sarcophagi which lie on the north slope down to where the fields were about 100 metres below.
Several kilometres north east, Cyrene was served by the port of Apollonia, but this eventually supplanted it in Roman times.
Around 50 BCE, when the Ptolemies donated Egypt to the Romans, Cyrene volunteered to join the Roman empire as well. In Roman times, the city was ransacked by a Jewish revolt around 120 BCE and only partially rebuilt. After the arrival of Islam, it was completely abandoned.
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