Bomba () is a village in eastern Libya on the
Gulf of Bomba. It is located south of
Derna.
Greek historian
Herodotus
Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the '' Histori ...
said that
Cyrene was founded in mid-7th century BC, when a group of Greek immigrants from
Thera
Santorini (, ), officially Thira (, ) or Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from the mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago formed by the Santorini caldera. It is the southernmos ...
landed at the Gulf of Bomba, and stayed there for years, then, they moved to place of Cyrene, and then, founded it. Depending on an old myth,
Battus moved, by the advice of the gods, to Libya, landed on the Gulf of
Timimi (the same Gulf of Bomba), and then moved westwards and founded Cyrene.
[Salem Mohammed ez Zawam, “Mu’jam al Amakin al Jughrafiya fi Libia”, Dar wa Maktabat ash Sha’b, Misratah, 2005, p.92.]
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Populated places in Derna District
Villages in Libya
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