<< Image Pages >> Euesperides - Ancient Village or Settlement in Libya
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Multi-periodSite Name: Euesperides Alternative Name: Hesperides, Barneek, Berenice, Barqah, BarcaCountry: Libya
NOTE: This site is 56.888 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Benghazi Nearest Village: Benghazi
Latitude: 32.124479N Longitude: 20.064302E
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 |
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Ancient Settlement in Libya
Greek colonists from Cyrene founded Euesperides in the 7th Century BCE. The Ptolemies, who took over Libya and Egypt after the reign of Alexander the great, renamed it Berenice, after one of their queens after a short period of abandonment. Later it became a Roman town. It was largely a vilage after the Arab invasion of 645 CE, but grew into Libya second largest city, Benghazi, after the 12th century.
The only ancient ruins are near the old italian lighthouse and a litle north east.
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