Cyrenaica

Cyrenaica (in ancient Greek in Latin was a Roman province of North Africa , located between the provinces of Egypt and Numidia. This area is now part of Libya. Its name comes from the city Greek Cyrene.

Colonized by the Greeks from the ^fifth century BC, it has long belonged to the Egyptian Hellenistic. Ptolemy VIII bequeathed to his son personally Ptolemy Apion who, without heir, bequeathed it in turn to the Roman Republic in 96 BC. AD. This made it a province with the Greek island of Crete.

When Arab Muslims captured it ⁱⁿ the seventh century, the drying climate and lower water reserves had much depopulated the country, whose prosperity was only a memory. The roumis were driven to Sicily or Crete , and the country remained deserted for centuries. In the XIV ^century, improved climate allows human colonization: the country appointed Arab Barqah ), is part of Egypt before becoming a province of the Ottoman Empire , which eventually link it to Tripoli.

In 1911 , the Italy seized Tripoli and Cyrenaica, therefore, in a war that pitted him against the Ottoman Empire , which therefore follows the political destiny of Libya.

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