Benghazi (Banghāzī) is a city in Libya, on the Mediterranean coast east of the Gulf of Sirt. The second-largest city of Libya, with a population of approximately 800,000 (in 2018), it has been one of the country's major ports and the most important city of the historic region of Cyrenaica (Barqa) for the last two centuries. The history of Benghazi goes back to the sixth century BCE, when Greek colonists founded the city of Euesperides, which became part of the so-called Cyrenaican Pentapolis (five cities). During