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  Cyrene may refer to:

  • Cyrene (mythology)
    Cyrene (mythology)

    In Greek mythology, as recorded in Pindar's 9th Pythian ode, Cyrene was the daughter of Hypseus, King of the Lapiths. When a lion attacked her father's sheep, Cyrene wrestled with the lion....
    , a Greek mythological figure
  • Cyrene, Libya
    Cyrene, Libya

    Cyrene was an ancient Greece colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times....
    , an ancient Greek colony in North Africa
  • The USS Cyrene (AGP-13), a motor torpedo boat tender
  • 133 Cyrene
    133 Cyrene

    133 Cyrene is a fairly large and very bright main belt asteroid. It is an S-type asteroid.It was discovered by James Craig Watson on August 16, 1873 and named after Cyrene , a nymph, daughter of king Hypseus and beloved of Apollo in Greek mythology....
    , an asteroid
  • Cyrene (Xena)
    Cyrene (Xena)

    Cyrene is a fictional character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess. She was portrayed by the actress Darien Takle....
    , a fictional character in the Xena TV series


See also

  • Cyrenaica
    Cyrenaica

    Cyrenaica or Cirenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya and also an ex-province or state of the country in the pre-1963 administrative system....
    , the region around Cyrene