cyrenaica in English

noun
1
a region in northeastern Libya that borders on the Mediterranean Sea and was settled by the Greeks circa 640 bc.

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1. III Cyrenaica defect from Anthony and claim allegiance to Octavian - who spares the Legion from being disbanded.

2. The Arabs continue rapidly westwards along the coast of North Africa, capturing Cyrenaica in 642 and Tripoli in 643

3. Operation Battleaxe, 15–17 June 1941, was intended to lift the Siege of Tobruk and re-capture eastern Cyrenaica.

4. She returned to the Mediterranean and on 28 November was torpedoed by the German submarine U-407 off the coast of Cyrenaica.

5. From these scant and distant sources, it appears that Aristippus was born in North Africa in the city of Cyrene, in what is currently Libya but was then Cyrenaica