Talk:Cyrenaica

A fact from Cyrenaica appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 September 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Pentapolis of North Africa is believed to be the birthplace of Saint Mark the Evangelist?

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Merger 1

The article "Pentapolis" is a verbatim copy of most sections of the "Cyrenaica" article, and provides no new or specific information on the Pentapolis itself. As such, it is redundant. If no objection is noted or significant material added to the Pentapolis page, I'll turn it into a redirect page. Cplakidas 23:18, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think that Pentapolis (North Africa) has information about a part of Cyrenaica and these are not included in the article Cyrenaica

Including the information you mentioned is important to explain relationship between Pentapolis (North Africa) and Cyrenaic.

The article Pentapolis (North Africa) is being developed to include information about the history of the Eparchy as part of both the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Greek Orthodox Church.

I am in favour of keeping them separate. --Ghaly 19:45, 22 September 2007 (UTC) Your Stupid[reply]

I redirected Pentapolis (North Africa) to here a few days ago--Ghaly 21:59, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merger 2

I suggest moving the content from Barqah into this article and making Barqah redirect here. The material, much of which is already here, would fit nicely in the Islam section, and wouldn't make this article much longer. In other words, merger would heal an unnecessary content forking. --Bejnar (talk) 21:21, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Most of the article at Barqah is, in any case, contained here. Effectively we have two articles for the same place using alternate names as their headings. About time it was sorted out. Skinsmoke (talk) 06:04, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. The current Barqah article is an unsourced duplication of a small part of the Cyrenaica article. — AjaxSmack 01:25, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have, not so boldly given the uniform agreement so far, merged the content from the Barqah article into the Islam section. The following 2006 statement was the only comment on the Barqah talk page, which I have merged here for completeness. --Bejnar (talk) 15:26, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Newly created page with text brought from the original page Barka which used to include info on both a region in Libya PLUS a town in Oman (two topics oddly sharing one page). The names of the twon and region spell and mean differently in Arabic. "Barka" was supposed to be a transliteration for both. But because the transliteration spelling is right for the Omani twon ( بركاء‎ ) and not so right for the Libyan region ( برقه ), I created a new Barqah page for the Libyan region with a most accurate transliteration spelling (Barqah). Now the page Barka includes only info about the Omani twon. Remarks on top of the page Barka and Barka (disambiguation) can be introduced, so as to give a link to this newly created page for whoever is looking for the Libyan region using the old wrong spelling (Barka). For easy-reference purposes, I intentionally kept the first version of this article identical to the original relevant text taken from "Barka", making my changes immediately after that in the 2nd version. Ahmed Elnagar 00:56, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

British 1900s-1919

There is nothing mentioned here about the British claiming Territory during the time of World War I. Please add something about this clearly in the Modern History section. Vadac (talk) 19:28, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Language?

What was the main language of Cyrenaica before Arabic? Did they speak Greek, or perhaps Coptic? --74.220.50.16 (talk) 03:21, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The predominant underlying culture and language was Berber. But you have various groups coming to the coastal areas over time, Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, and farmers from the upper Nile. --Bejnar (talk) 17:02, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

Can somebody post an functional infobox into the article? There are some technical difficulties with existing one. PANONIAN 11:45, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"self-declared autonomous region"

To put a sentence like "self-declared autonomous region" and Al-Bayda as its capital is kind of exaggeration that harms Wikipedia's credibility!!! I'm a Libyan citizen living in Benghazi, and often travel to Al-Bayda, and I noticed no sign represents the authority of the so-called "Political Bureau of the Cyrenaica region", that is, it's not only not recognized by the Tripoli government, but they are not even de-facto rulers of Cyrenaica!!!--Maher27777 (talk) 14:58, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Capital?

This article states that Bayda is the capital of Cyrenaica. The article on Bayda does not mention that fact, if it is a fact. The article on Benghazi says that Benghazi is the capital of Cyrenaica. Is there any consensus? Is there an actual Cyrenaican government of which either Benghazi or Bayda is the capital, and if so, which? Thanks to anyone who can clarify. --Potosino (talk) 15:27, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's not the capital. That information is because of the insistence of User:ليبي صح.Maher27777 (talk) 04:13, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

[1]not insistence, according to what is in the news that the government of Cyrenaica taken from the city of Bayda-based, ie it is the political capital, Bayda, and Benghazi, the largest city in Cyrenaica.--ليبي صح (talk) 04:27, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I mean it is not a capital of a recognized body..that is, any subdivision recognized by central government. "The Cyrenaica Region Bureau" is not even the de facto ruler of Cyrenaica..you can come to Al Bayda and see by yourself!!!--Maher27777 (talk) 15:57, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Scope of this page and infobox

The scope of the page seems to have concentrated on the geographic region of Cyrenaica, but at some point someone added an infobox of the Cyrenaica Autonomy, which was briefly declared during the Libyan crisis, but has never become a reality, with the region becoming de-facto seat of power of one of the rival Libyan governments. I don't mind to create an article about the self-proclaimed autonomy, but putting the infobox here is confusing.GreyShark (dibra) 16:52, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What about altering the infobox to just be about the geographic region? Much of the information (population, density, etc.) is still relevant to a region. Dunditschia (talk) 20:45, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Kitos War

A small entry with a reference to the Kitos War in Cyrenaica would be useful. I.am.a.qwerty (talk) 03:37, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]