Photos by Cyra: on the map, in Google Earth (KML)
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Cyra's conversations
morgens im Juni auf dem Sattelberg Ehrenbürg
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Amazing place!
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'They lived in Aziris for six years, but the seventh year some Libyans pretended that they could take to a better land, they persuaded them to leave. The Libyans led them west of Aziris, and carefully planned the trip so that it would be night-time when they took the Greeks through a specially beautiful location-called Irasa-and too dark for the Greeks to see as they went through. They brought them to a place called Apollo's Spring and said, "This is a good place for you to live, because an opening has been formed in heavens here". From Herodotus' The Histories. Book 4:158.
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'The land surrounding Cyrene has deep soil and bears many agricultural products. Not only it produces wheat, but also possesses large vineyards and olive orchands as well as wild plants and many rivers providing useful functions. The area extending to the south, where nitron grows, being uncultivated and without spring waters, has the facade of the sea.' From Diodorus' of Sicily Library of History. Book 3:50.
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