- later 7th century BCE — Africa:
Phoenicians found Leptis Magna
Phoenician colonists establish Leptis Magna, which with Oea (Tripoli) and Sabratha forms the 'three cities' that give Tripolitania its name.
Era: Phoenician Tripolitania, Greek Cyrene and Roman Rule
Sources: Leptis Magna · Wikipedia, Libya · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- 631 BCE — Africa:
Greeks found Cyrene
Settlers from Thera, led by Battus, found Cyrene in eastern Libya; it becomes the chief city of the Cyrenaican Pentapolis and a renowned centre of Greek culture.
Era: Phoenician Tripolitania, Greek Cyrene and Roman Rule
Sources: Cyrene, Libya · Wikipedia, Cyrenaica · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Formation in the 7th century BCE
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged formation — origins, unifications and the founding of states as each nation's archive records them, narrowed to the 7th century BCE — 2 of them, drawn from 1 nation, running from 650 BCE to 631 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 2
- Nations
- 1
- Earliest
- 650 BCE
- Latest
- 631 BCE
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.