Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Archaeological Site of Cyrene' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Ancient Greek and Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya | WIKI |
| Cyrene (/saxc9xaaxcbx88rixcbx90ni/; Ancient Greek: xcex9axcfx85xcfx81xcexaexcexbdxcexb7, romanized:xc2xa0Kyrxe1xb8x97nxc4x93; Standard Arabic: xd8xb4xd8xadxd8xa7xd8xaaxe2x80x8e, romanized:xc2xa0shahat) was an ancient Greek and later Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya. | WIKI |
| The city was named after a spring, Kyre, which the Greeks consecrated to Apollo. | WIKI |
| The Pythia had offered the advice to found a new city in Libya. | WIKI |
| Traditional details concerning the founding of the city are contained in Herodotus' Histories IV. | WIKI |
| Ophellas, the general who occupied the city in the name of Ptolemy I Soter's, ruled the city almost independently until his death, when Ptolemy's son-in-law Magas received governorship of the territory. | WIKI |
| The invasion was unsuccessful and in 250 BC, after Magas' death, the city was reabsorbed into Ptolemaic Egypt. | WIKI |
| Silphium was in such demand that it was harvested to extinction;[22] this, in conjunction with commercial competition from Carthage and Alexandria, resulted in a reduction in the city's trade. | WIKI |
| Ammianus Marcellinus described it in the 4th century as a deserted city, and Synesius, a native of Cyrene, described it in the following century as a vast ruin at the mercy of the nomads. | WIKI |
| Ultimately, the city fell under Arab conquest in 643, by which time little was left of the opulent Roman cities of Northern Africa; the ruins of Cyrene are located near the modern village of Shahhat. | WIKI |