Postage stamps and postal history of Cyrenaica Postage stamps and postal history of Cyrenaica This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Cyrenaica, now part of Libya. Cyrenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya and also an ex-province or state ("muhafazah" or "wilayah") of the country (alongside Tripolitania and Fezzan) in the pre-1963 administrative system. What used to be Cyrenaica in the old system is now divided up into several "shabiyat" (see administrative divisions in Libya). In addition to the coastal region, "i.e." historical Cyrenaica, the former province, during the Kingdom and the Italian era extended to the south to include the
Names of the Greeks term "Graikos" related with "Hellenes" ("Meteorologica" I xiv) and claimed that it was the name originally used by the Illyrians for the Dorians in Epirus from "Graii" native name of the people of Epirus. He places ancient Hellas in the region of Achelous river around Dodona where in his opinion the great deluge of Deucalion must have occurred. The priests of Zeus in Dodona were called "Selloi" which could lead to "Sellanes" (like "Akarnanes") and then to "Hellanes"-"Hellenes". However the toponyms and the Greek tradition indicate that it is more possible that the homeland of the Greeks was originally in