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Province, 117 CE
Creta et Cyrenaica
Senatorial province (proconsul)Capital: GortynRoman since 27 BCE
An odd pairing — Crete and the five Greek cities of Cyrenaica, on opposite sides of open sea, governed as one senatorial province since 27 BCE simply because neither was large enough to justify its own proconsul. Cyrenaica bore the worst of the Kitos War's opening massacres in 115–117; Cassius Dio's account of hundreds of thousands killed there, while likely inflated, still reflects real, near-total devastation.
Crete was conquered by Metellus in 67–66 BCE; Cyrenaica was bequeathed to Rome in 96 BCE and annexed in 74 BCE. Augustus combined both into one senatorial province in 27 BCE.
23 places on the map
- Acropolis of Cyrene · Monument
- Agora of Cyrene · Forum
- Baths of Trajan · Bath
- Caesareum of Cyrene · Temple
- City Walls of Apollonia · Wall
- Cyrene Revolt of the Kitos War · Battle
- Extramural Doric Temple of Apollonia · Temple
- Forum of Proculus · Forum
- Harbor of Apollonia · Harbor
- Necropolis of Apollonia · Necropolis
- Necropolis of Cyrene · Necropolis
- Odeon of Cyrene · Theater
- Palazzo delle Colonne · Villa
- Ptolemais Cisterns · Cistern
- Ptolemais Necropolis · Necropolis
- Roman Baths of Apollonia · Bath
- Royal Mausoleum of Ptolemais · Mausoleum
- Sanctuary of Apollo · Sanctuary
- Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone · Sanctuary
- Temple of Zeus · Temple
- Theatre of Apollonia · Theater
- Tomb of Battus · Tomb
- Villa Dionysos · Villa
Sources
- Cassius Dio, Roman History 68.32
- Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica 4.2
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete_and_Cyrenaica
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