Boreum, Cyrenaica Boreum, Cyrenaica Boreum was a city and diocese in Roman Libya. It is now a Roman Catholic titular see. Its modern location is Tabibbi, in southern modern Libya. Boreum was important enough in the Roman province of Libya Superior (Libya Pentapolitana; part of Cyrenaica) to become one of the suffragan sees in this province, which depended directly on the Patriarchate of Alexandria (in Egypt) without a proper Metropolitan, but faded like most bishoprics in Roman Africa. We know of only one ancient bishop, the Arian bishop Senziano, mentioned in 325. In 1933 the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin
Name of Greece Name of Greece The name of Greece differs in Greek compared with the names used for the country in other languages and cultures, just like the names of the Greeks. The ancient and modern name of the country is "Hellas" or "Hellada" (; in polytonic: ), and its official name is the Hellenic Republic "Helliniki Dimokratia". In English, however, the country is usually called Greece, which comes from the Latin "Graecia" (as used by the Romans) and literally means 'the land of the Greeks'. The English name "Greece" and the similar adaptations in other languages derive from the Latin name