BUILT BY PTOLEMY 111.
Ben Ghazi, which along with Tripoli and Derna has been borubardod and seized by the Italian fleet, was moro intorcstinff to the ancients than to present-day Europeans. Tor it stands on Iho traditional site of tho Garden of the Hespondc?, wliero tho golden apples grow. To-day-it is a town of some 10,000 inhabitants, most of them of mixed Arab and negro blood, lying on a spit of land at tho end of which, is tho old castle, which has had lilllo done to it since tho day when Justinian put it in a condition of defence. It is a great starting place for caravans into tho interior, but it haslittlo foreign trade. The ruins of its ancient predecessor Bcrenico Ho to (ho north-west of tho modern (own. It was built by Ptolemy 111 and named after his wife.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1295, 25 November 1911, Page 10
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142BUILT BY PTOLEMY 111. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1295, 25 November 1911, Page 10
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