Battos

...It is now part of Libya, and is located about 200 km northeast of Benghazi. A large excavation has been carried out here. At the end of the 7th century BC, some of the inhabitants of the island of Thera (Santorini), which had been hit by a famine, settled in this fertile land under the leadership of Battos (an inscription of the colonization resolution, reprinted in the 4th century BC, was excavated from the Agora of Cyrene). The Battos dynasty ruled the area until the middle of the 5th century BC. After that, it passed through the rule of the Ptolemy dynasty, and in 74 BC it became a Roman province of Cyrenaica. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Battos" is listed below.

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…現在はリビア領に含まれ，ベンガジの北東約200kmに位置し，大規模な発掘が行われた。前7世紀の末，飢饉に襲われたテラ(サントリニ)島住民の一部がバットスBattosを植民指導者としてこの沃地に入植(前4世紀に再録された植民決議の碑文がキュレネのアゴラから出土している)，バットス一門の王政は前5世紀半ばまで続いた。その後，プトレマイオス王朝の支配を経て，前74年にローマの属州キレナイカとなる。…

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