Cyrene, Libya (lby)

Cyrene, Libya

Cyrene, Libya ranks 834th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, North Korea, and Ouagadougou. Memorable people born in Cyrene, Libya include Eratosthenes, Mark the Evangelist, and Aristippus. Memorable people who died in Cyrene, Libya include Synesius, Theodorus the Atheist, and Theodorus of Cyrene. Cyrene, Libya has been the birth place of many philosophers, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and philosophers. Cyrene, Libya is located in Libya.

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. Read more on Wikipedia