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
Georgia (country) from the "Karts", the latter being one of the proto-Georgian tribes that emerged as a dominant group in ancient times. The name "Sakartvelo" (საქართველო) consists of two parts. Its root, "kartvel-i" (ქართველ-ი), specifies an inhabitant of the core central-eastern Georgian region of Kartli, or Iberia as it is known in sources of the Eastern Roman Empire. Ancient Greeks (Strabo, Herodotus, Plutarch, Homer, etc.) and Romans (Titus Livius, Tacitus, etc.) referred to early western Georgians as Colchians and eastern Georgians as Iberians ("Iberoi" in some Greek sources). The Georgian circumfix "sa"-X-"o" is a standard geographic construction designating "the area where X