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Known by the Greeks as Apollonia today's Soussa with moderate climate, beautiful and nature.
Soussa was prosperous port for corima it is far away from Soussa.
Since the middle seventh century B.C. and exported the Sylphuim plant played a great economy. One of the five cities in to lemans this and one of the tenth cities in Roman time before to become the capital of Barce in sixth century the out side wall of the city was structured in halimian time, and was repaired by roman time. And the imbated city land mark there is the fortified part of the city (Akropolos) the church of three fluxion desigh out side the wall, baths besides the Byzamtine palace in sixth centry.
There is cyrene ruins under the sea archaeologist expert explain the result of continuous fall to earth layers from the sea surface level caves the plunge of the ruins.
By the first century the Roman occupied (Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar) which means the Green mountains, called this area the five cities territory.
because embossed by five big arch culture centers (cmene) Shahat Apollonia (Soussa) Arsinoe (Talmita) BERENICE (Benghazi) ptolemaist (Al-aguriya) Benghazi known by the Greeks in year 446 B.C. paradise of Arsine where the king daughter (Gore majas) married to the second Batlems called the city by the name of the princess (BERENICE) by the 246 B.C. after the Islamic conquest called Benghazi