List of kings of Cyrene
Cyrene or Cyrenaica was a Greek colony on the North African coast, in what is now northeastern Libya, founded by Dorian settlers from Thera (modern Santorini) in the 7th century BC. Kings of Cyrene received a recurring posthumous hero cult like that of the Dorian kings of Sparta. == Kings of Cyrene (Battiad dynasty), 632–440 BC == Battus I 630–600 BC Arcesilaus I 600–583 BC Battus II 583–560 BC Arcesilaus II 560–550 BC Learchus 550 BC (disputed) Battus III 550–530 BC Arcesilaus III 530–515 BC Battus IV 515–465 BC Arcesilaus IV 465–440 BC In 440 BC, Cyrene became a republic, under Persian suzerainty (as had been the latter kings from Arcesilaus III).