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Cyrene

Cyrene, also sometimes anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greek colony and Roman city near present-day in northeastern in .
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient Greek and Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya
  • Also known as: “Cyrene, Libya”
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shahhat.

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is a town in northeastern , on the Mediterranean coast. It is the birthplace of St. Mark the Evangelist.

Cyrene

Latitude
32.8208° or 32° 49′ 15″ north
Longitude
21.85641° or 21° 51′ 23″ east
Elevation
617 metres (2,024 feet)
Open location code
8G43RVC4+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 348368750
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
8378640
Wiki­data ID
Q44112
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Cyrene” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cirene (stad)”
  • Afrikaans: “Cirene”
  • Albanian: “Kirene”
  • Albanian: “Kirenea, Libi”
  • Albanian: “Kirenea”
  • Arabic: “قورينا”
  • Arabic: “قورينة”
  • Arabic: “قوريني”
  • Arabic: “كيريني”
  • Arabic: “ملوك قورينا”
  • Armenian: “Կիրենա”
  • Asturian: “Cirene”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kirena”
  • Bashkir: “Кирена”
  • Basque: “Zirene”
  • Belarusian: “Кірэна”
  • Belarusian: “Шахат”
  • Bengali: “সাইরিন, লিবিয়া”
  • Bengali: “সাইরিন”
  • Breton: “Kirene”
  • Breton: “Kyrene”
  • Bulgarian: “Кирена”
  • Burmese: “ဆိုင်းရင်းမြို့ ၊ လစ်ဗျားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Cirene”
  • Catalan: “Pentàpolis cirenaica”
  • Catalan: “Pentàpolis de Cirenaica”
  • Catalan: “Pentàpolis de Líbia”
  • Catalan: “Pentàpolis líbia”
  • Catalan: “Pentàpolis líbica”
  • Chinese: “古利奈”
  • Chinese: “库瑞涅”
  • Chinese: “昔兰尼”
  • Croatian: “Cirena”
  • Croatian: “Cyrene”
  • Czech: “Kyréna”
  • Dagbani: “Cyrene”
  • Danish: “Kyrene”
  • Dutch: “Cyrene”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قورينه”
  • Esperanto: “Cireno”
  • Finnish: “Kyrene”
  • French: “Cyrene”
  • French: “Cyrène”
  • Galician: “Cirene”
  • Georgian: “კირენა”
  • German: “Kyrene”
  • Greek: “Κυρήνη”
  • Hausa: “Cyrene, Libya”
  • Hebrew: “קירינה”
  • Hebrew: “קיריני”
  • Hebrew: “קירנה”
  • Hungarian: “Küréné”
  • Ido: “Kirene”
  • Indonesian: “Kirene, Libya”
  • Indonesian: “Kirene”
  • Irish: “Cyrene”
  • Italian: “Cirene”
  • Japanese: “キュレネ”
  • Japanese: “キュレネの考古学遺跡”
  • Japanese: “キレネ”
  • Japanese: “クーリナ”
  • Japanese: “クーリナの古代遺跡”
  • Korean: “키레네”
  • Latin: “Cyraenae”
  • Latin: “Cyrenae”
  • Latin: “Cyrene”
  • Latvian: “Kirēna”
  • Latvian: “Kirēne”
  • Lithuanian: “Kirėnė”
  • Macedonian: “Кирена”
  • Maithili: “काइरेन, लिबिया”
  • Malagasy: “Kirena”
  • Maltese: “Cyrene”
  • Mongolian: “Кирене хот”
  • Mongolian: “Кирене”
  • Mossi: “Cyrene”
  • Nepali: “काइरेन, लिबिया”
  • Nepali: “काइरेन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cyrene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyrene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kyrene”
  • Norwegian: “Kyrene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cirene”
  • Persian: “شحات”
  • Persian: “کورنا”
  • Polish: “Cyrena”
  • Polish: “Cyrene”
  • Polish: “Kyrene”
  • Portuguese: “Cirene”
  • Portuguese: “Sítio Arqueológico de Cirene”
  • Romanian: “Cirene”
  • Romanian: “Cyrene”
  • Russian: “Кирена”
  • Scots: “Cyrene”
  • Serbian: “Кирена”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cirena”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kirena”
  • Sicilian: “Cireni”
  • Slovenian: “Cyrene”
  • Slovenian: “Kirena”
  • Spanish: “Cirenaico”
  • Spanish: “Cirene”
  • Spanish: “Kyrene”
  • Swahili: “Kurene”
  • Swedish: “Cyrene”
  • Swedish: “Kyrene”
  • Tatar: “Борынгы Кирена каласы”
  • Thai: “คิวเรเน”
  • Thai: “ไซรีนี”
  • Turkish: “Kirene”
  • Twi: “Cyrene, Libya, na ɛwɔ hɔ”
  • Ukrainian: “Кирена”
  • Urdu: “شحات”
  • Urdu: “قورینا”
  • Venetian: “Cirene”
  • Vietnamese: “Cyrene, Libya”
  • Vietnamese: “Cyrene”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cyrene”
  • Welsh: “Cyrene”
  • Western Armenian: “Քիրինի, Լիպիա”
  • Western Armenian: “Քիրինի”
  • Wu Chinese: “昔兰尼”
  • Zulu: “Cyrene, Libhiya”

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