What the records say
- When
- since 2021
- Kind
- World Heritage in danger
- Coordinates
- 32.83° N, 21.86° E
Cyrene, Libya
Ancient Greek and Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya
Cyrene, also sometimes anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greek colony and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in northeastern Libya in North Africa. It was part of the Pentapolis, an important group of five cities in the region, and gave the area its classical and early modern name Cyrenaica.
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The source
- UNESCO World Heritage List 2021UNESCO World Heritage CentreCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO
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