List of kings of Cyrene

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kings of Sparta.[1]

Kings of Cyrene (Battiad dynasty), 632–440 BC

In 440 BC, Cyrene became a republic, under

Persian suzerainty (as had been the latter kings from Arcesilaus III). Cyrene was conquered by Alexander the Great in 331 BC and fell to the portion of Ptolemy I in the division of Alexander's empire. In 276 BC it reasserted its independence.[citation needed
]

Kings of Cyrene, 276–246 BC

In 249 BC Cyrene again became a republic, but was restored to Ptolemaic control in 246 BC by

Berenice II
, Queen of Cyrene. From 163 BC, Cyrene occasionally had its own rulers from the Ptolemaic dynasty.

Kings of Cyrene, 163–30 BC

In 75 BC, the city became part of a Roman province, but it was restored to the

Cleopatra VII and Antony's daughter, Cleopatra Selene II, was made Queen of Cyrene, but the city returned to Rome following Augustus' conquest of Egypt
in 30 BC.

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