Cyrénaïque

The Cyrénaïque (in Greek old Κυρηναία, in Latin Cyrenaica , was a Roman Province of North Africa, located between the provinces of Egypt and Numidie. This territory forms today part of the Libya. Its name comes from the Greek city of Cyrène.

Colonized by the Greek as from the 5th century before our era, it belonged a long time to the Egypt Hellénistique. Ptolémée VIII bequeathed it to personal capacity with his/her son Ptolémée Apion who, without heir, bequeathed it in his turn with the Roman République in 96 av. J. - C.. This one made of it a province with the Greek island of Crete.

When the Arab Musulmans seized some at the 7th century, the drying of the climate and the fall of the water reserves had depopulated already much the country, whose prosperity was nothing any more but one to remember. The roumis were driven out towards the Sicily or the Crete, and the country remained deserted several centuries. The 14th century, a climatic improvement allows a human recolonisation: country, named in Arab Barqah rear RTL برقه), belonged to Egypt before becoming a province of the Ottoman Empire, which ends up attaching it to the Tripolitaine.

In 1911, the Italy seizes Tripolitaine and thus Cyrénaïque in a war which opposes it to the Ottoman Empire, which consequently follows the political destiny of the Libya.

See too

Internal bonds

cyrénaïque Philosophy
Roman Governor

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