Here, Greeks, is the proper place for you to settle; for here the sky leaks. - a daughter of the Naiad Creusa, and the , King of the Lapiths Hypsaeus the city Cyrene and the regions Cyrenaica named after her.
Cyrene A titular see of Northern Africa. The city was founded early in the seventh century B.C. by a Dorian colony from Thera and named after a spring, Kyre (or Cyrene a daughter of the Naiad Creusa, and the King of the Lapiths Hypsaeus), which the Greeks consecrated to Apollo; it stood on the boundary of the Green Mountains (Djebel Akhaar), ten miles from its port, Apollonia (Marsa Sousa). It was the chief town of the Lydian region between Egypt and Carthage (Cyrenaica, now vilayet of Benghazi), kept up commercial relations with all the Greek cities, and reached the height of its prosperity under its own kings in the fifth century B. C. Soon after 460 it became a republic; after the death of Alexander it passed to the Ptolemies and fell into decay. ,