Cyrenaica In a wider sense, still in use, Cyrenaica includes all of the eastern part of Libya, including the Kufra District. Cyrenaica borders on Tripolitania in the northwest and on Fezzan in the southwest. The region that used to be Cyrenaica officially until 1963 has formed several shabiyat, the administrative divisions of Libya, since 1995. The 2011 Libyan Civil War started in Cyrenaica, which came largely under the control of the National Transitional Council (headquartered in Benghazi) for most of the war. In 2012, the National Transitional Council declared Cyrenaica to be an autonomous region of Libya. Geologically, Cyrenaica rests on
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