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Cyrenaica

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Cyr·e·na·i·ca  (sr-n-k, sr-)
An ancient region of northeast Libya bordering on the Mediterranean Sea. It was colonized by the Greeks in the seventh century b.c. and became a Roman province in the first century b.c.


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David Stirling, founder of the SAS, believed that Commando raids such as those that had conducted on German positions along the coast of Cyrenaica, in North Africa, were of little value.
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The Bedouin Of Cyrenaica and their cousins in the Northwestern Desert of Egypt: these Arabic speaking pastoral-nomadic tribes (under the overarching Sada clan that includes the Awlad c Ali in Egypt) live between the sparse desert lowlands in southern Cyrenaica and the coastal highlands.
The social context of pre-Islamic poetry: poetic imagery and social ... by Brown, Jonathan A.C. / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
Elsewhere in Libya, ExxonMobil is in the very early stages of an exploration program in Contract Area 44 in the offshore Cyrenaica Basin, which was awarded to the company in the second round of EPSA IV licensing in 2005.
ExxonMobil Signs EPSA IV Agreement for Exploration in Offshore Sirte ... by Business Wire
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