Ptolemais, Cyrenaica current archbishop, personal title, is Cyril Vasiľ, secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. Ptolemais, Cyrenaica Ptolemais (Greek: Πτολεμαΐς) was one of the five cities that formed the Pentapolis of Cyrenaica, the others being Cyrene, Euesperides (later Berenice, and now Benghazi), Tauchira/Teuchira (later Arsinoe, and now Tocra), and Apollonia (now Susa). Its ruins are at a small village in modern Libya called Tolmeita ("Arabic" طلميتة), after the ancient name. The city was founded by and named after one of the rulers of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, probably Ptolemy III Euergetes (246–221 BC). What had been a small Greek settlement of
Names of the Greeks that is modern Greece, with Thessalonica as its capital. Romans or "Rhomaioi" (Ῥωμαῖοι; sg. Ῥωμαῖος "Rhomaios") and "Romioi" (Ρωμιοί; sg. Ρωμιός "Romios"), is the name by which the Greeks were known in the Middle Ages and during Ottoman rule. The name in antiquity originally signified the inhabitants of the city of Rome in Italy, but with the increasing grants of Roman citizenship to the Greeks and other nations of the Roman Empire, it soon lost its connection with the Latins. This process culminated in 212 AD, when Emperor Caracalla's "Constitutio Antoniniana" granted the citizenship to all free-born men of the