Apollonia
The name of several Greek cities. The chief of these was in Illyria, founded c.600 bc where the river Aous enters the coastal plain, with relatively easy communications across the ...
Berenice
The name of several Ptolemaic dynastic foundations. Among the best known are:(a) Berenice (mod. Benghazi), the westernmost Cyrenaican city, founded in the mid-3rd cent. bc (exact date and ...
Cyrenaica
(Κυρήνη). The Roman province of Cyrenaica comprised the plateau of Djebel Akhdar on the east coast of Libya. Under Diocletian it was divided into two provinces: Libya Superior or Pentapolis ...
Cyrene
An ancient Greek city in North Africa, near the coast in Cyrenaica, which from the 4th century bc was a great intellectual centre, with a noted medical school.See also Simon of Cyrene.
Greek epigraphy
The study of inscriptions engraved on stone or metal in Greek letters. Interest in inscriptions is not a modern phenomenon; in antiquity people studied specific inscriptions. In the early 3rd cent. ...
Lombards
A member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century, and who settled in what became Lombardy. The name of this people comes from Italian lombardo, representing late Latin Langobardus, ...
marches
The Marches (Italian Marche) are the modern name for a region of Italy extending along the Adriatic side of the Appennines, between Romagna and the Abruzzi. This mountainous and compartmentalized ...
Marmarica
Semi-arid coastal area between the African Pentapolis and Egypt, approximately from Darnis (mod. Derna) to Catabathmus (Sollum); crossed by routes from the coast to the Ammon-oracle at Siwa. It ...
Pesaro
During the Renaissance, the Italian city of Pesaro was one of the most important centres of maiolica production. Important patrons included the Sforza family and Isabella d’Este, who decorated her ...
Sirtica
Semi-arid coastal area along the shore of the Greater Syrtis (Gulf of Sidra), home of Gaetuli, Marmaridae, and the Nasamones who were ‘forbidden to exist’ by the emperor Domitian (Cassius ...
Synesius
(c.370–c.413), Bp. of Ptolemais. A native of Cyrene, he was descended from an ancient family. In 403/4 he married a Christian. Having won the confidence of his fellow-countrymen by a successful ...
Syrtes
The notoriously dangerous shoals and shallows (the tidal range is greater than normal in the Mediterranean) of the Libyan continental shelf of north Africa from Cyrenaica (see Pentapolis) through ...
Thibron
(d. 322 bc),Spartan mercenary commander, served under Harpalus, whom he murdered and supplanted (late 324). He intervened with devastating effect in Cyrenaica and became briefly master of the ...
