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- Area of E Libya, colonized by the Greeks in
- the 7th century BC; later held by the
- Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and
- Italians. Present cities in the region are
- Benghazi, Derna, and Tobruk. The Greek
- colonies passed under the rule of the
- Ptolemies 322 BC, and in 174 BC Cyrenaica
- became a Roman province. It was conquered by
- the Arabs in the 7th century, by Turkey in
- the 16th, and by Italy 1912, when it was
- developed as a colony. It was captured by the
- British 1942, and under British control until
- it became a province of the new kingdom of
- Libya from 1951. In 1963 it was split into a
- number of smaller divisions under the
- constitutional reorganization. There are
- archaeological ruins at Cyrene and Apollonia.
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