Cyrenaica was the name of an administrative division of Italian Libya from 1927 until 1943, then under British military and civil administration from 1943 until 1951, and finally in the Kingdom of Libya from 1951 until 1963. (…)

On March 6 of 2012, semi-autonomy from Tripoli was declared in Benghazi at a meeting of tribal and military leaders. According to it, Cyrenaica extends from the central coastal city of Sirte to the Egyptian border.