Berenice
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 13, 2016 03:12 PM
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History
The modern city of Benghazi, Libya, began as the Greek colony of Euesperides ca. 525 BC. The city was later renamed Berenice in honor of Berenice of Cyrene, the queen of Ptolemy III Euergetes.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373757
32.1139055, 20.0699815
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640)
- DARMC location 2954 (330 BC - AD 640)
- Berenice connection Untitled (unspecified date range)
- So-called Area L in Berenike connection Berenice (unspecified date range)
- So-called Area H in Berenike connection Berenice (unspecified date range)
- So-called Area X in Berenike connection Berenice (unspecified date range)
- Church in Sidi Khiribech connection Berenice (unspecified date range)
- So-called Area A in Berenike connection Berenice (unspecified date range)
settlement, port
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- See Also:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 38 B1 Berenice
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Benghazi
D.J. Mattingly, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Berenice: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373757> [accessed: 06 July 2022]
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