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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 4298839, member: 57463"]Coma Berenices in Wikipedia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_Berenices" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_Berenices" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_Berenices</a></p><p>(Note that the temple <b>later</b> given to Aphrodite was originally for <b>Arsinoe II</b>. Women ruled.) </p><p><br /></p><p>"Euesperides had existed in the area from around 525 BC. In the 3rd century BC, it was relocated and refounded as the Ptolemaic city of Berenice. Berenice prospered under the Romans, and after the 3rd century AD it superseded Cyrene and Barca as the center of Cyrenaica." Today, we call it <b>Benghazi</b>. --https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benghazi</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Burnham's Celestial Handbook</i> shows three coins of Berenike II. Citing <i>Historia Numorum</i>, Burnham says that her maritime empire extended to Thrace.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 4298839, member: 57463"]Coma Berenices in Wikipedia [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_Berenices[/URL] (Note that the temple [B]later[/B] given to Aphrodite was originally for [B]Arsinoe II[/B]. Women ruled.) "Euesperides had existed in the area from around 525 BC. In the 3rd century BC, it was relocated and refounded as the Ptolemaic city of Berenice. Berenice prospered under the Romans, and after the 3rd century AD it superseded Cyrene and Barca as the center of Cyrenaica." Today, we call it [B]Benghazi[/B]. --https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benghazi [I]Burnham's Celestial Handbook[/I] shows three coins of Berenike II. Citing [I]Historia Numorum[/I], Burnham says that her maritime empire extended to Thrace.[/QUOTE]
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