The tale of the ancient Greeks in Libya begins in 630 BC with a group of islanders from Thera, Santorini, establishing Cyrene.

Outcome: Defeat of the Italian army in North Africa. In September 1940, Graziani launched an incursion from Cyrenaica, the eastern province of the Italian colony of Libya, into Egypt, which was ...

The kingdom’s rail transport consists of one ... Italian rule (1935 until World War II), Tripolitania (pop. 800,000), Cyrenaica (pop. 300,000) and Fezzan (pop. 40,000) have never been jointly ...

Located in the region of Cyrenaica, Ptolemais was founded in the late 4th or 3rd century BCE under Egypt’s Ptolemaic rulers and persisted until the Arab conquest in the 7th century CE.