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
Jan 23, 2023 04:38 PM
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History
Berenice was a coastal city of western Cyrenaica, located at modern Benghazi in Libya. Founded in the third century BCE, it replaced the earlier Greek colony of Eusperides, which had been centered a short distance to the northeast. Berenice was named in honor of Berenice of Cyrene, the queen of Ptolemy III Euergetes.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373757
32.12452, 20.06425
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640)
- Berenice succeeds Euesperides (330 BC - AD 300)
- Berenice part of (regional) Pentapolis (unspecified date range)
- Berenice connection Untitled (unspecified date range)
- Church in Sidi Khiribech located at Berenice (unspecified date range)
- So-called Area A in Berenike located at Berenice (unspecified date range)
- So-called Area H in Berenike located at Berenice (unspecified date range)
- So-called Area L in Berenike located at Berenice (unspecified date range)
- So-called Area X in Berenike located at Berenice (unspecified date range)
settlement, port
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- Related:
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, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373757> [accessed: 04 June 2023]
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