Benghazi a Libyan eastern city is the latest of a whole series of cities from which Cvrenaicans, at different periods, have been governed by diverse rulers. The First Cyrenaican capital was Cyrene itself, situated in the fertile and Well-Watered Jabbal el-Akhdar (Green Mountain). But in A.D. 297 Roman Emperor Diocletian transferred the capital to Ptolemais (Tolemeita). Later still, in the sixth century A. D., Ptolemais because state of ruin and Apollonia (Susa) was made capital of "Upper Libya" or Pentapolis. and Derna of" Lower Libya" extending eastward to the Egyption Frontier.
