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Cyrene
Cyrene, an ancient Greek and Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya, is the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region.
It gives eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times.Cyrene lies in a lush valley in the Jebel Akhdar uplands.
The city is named after a spring, Kyre, which the Greeks consecrate to Apollo.
It is also the seat of the Cyrenaics, a famous school of philosophy in the 3rd century BCE, founded by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates.
It is been nicknamed at this time as the "Athens of Africa".
Member Cities
- Alexandria > Al-Iskandariyah Al-Iskandariyah Egypt Location
- Barce > Al-Marj Al-Fatih Libya Location
- Benghazi > Banghazi Banghazi Libya Location
- Carthage Tunis Tunisia Location
- Corinth > Kórinthos Korinthia Greece Location
- Cyrenaica Libya Location
- Cyrene Libya Location
- Jarmah > Germa Awbari Libya Location
- Mégara Attiki Greece Location
- Naukratis Egypt Location
- Nèa Páfos (Paphos) Paphos Cyprus Location
- Sicyon Greece Location
- Tripoli > Tarabulus Liban-Nord Lebanon Location
- Tripolis > Tarabulus Tarabulus Libya Location
- Tukrah Al-Fatih Libya Location
- Vathí Samos Greece Location