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630 BCEGreek colonists from the island of Thera found the city of Cyrene in North Africa.
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460 BCECyrene becomes a republic.
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c. 398 BCE - c. 380 BCEPlato travels in Egypt, Cyrene, Italy, Syracuse and Sicily.
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323 BCEAfter Alexander the Great's death Cyrene becomes subject of the Ptolemaic Empire.
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276 BCE - 195 BCELife of Eratosthenes, ancient Greek Alexandrian scholar, native of Cyrene and one of the greatest geographers in antiquity.
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96 BCECyrenaica becomes a Roman province.
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74 BCEThe city of Cyrene comes under Roman control.
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c. 27 BCEAugustus makes Gortyn the capital of the Roman province of Crete & Cyrene.
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262 CEAn earthquake devastates Cyrene.
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365 CEAfter another earthquake Cyrene becomes an abandonded city of ruins.
