WikiCards
Play on iPhone nowFree in Safari. Add it to your Home Screen.Play
WikiCards · Card list · History cards · Cyrene, Libya
Uncommon card · History
Cyrene, Libya, an Uncommon card
Cyrene, also sometimes anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greek colony and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in northeastern Libya in North Africa.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 180
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Ranked #876 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Cyrene, Libya quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cyrene, Libya card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Cyrene lies on a ridge of the Jebel Akhdar ______.
Answer
uplands. Cyrene lies on a ridge of the Jebel Akhdar uplands. From the Cyrene, Libya article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
2022 Colombian presidential election. 2022 Colombian presidential election 91 · Grand Duchy of Lithuania 88 · Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 83 · Cyrene, Libya 80 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Grand Duchy of Lithuania 280,000 · 2022 Colombian presidential election 180,000 · Cyrene, Libya 130,000 · Adal Sultanate 100,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was part of the Pentapolis, an important group of five cities in the region, and gave the area its classical and early modern name Cyrenaica.
- Cyrene lies on a ridge of the Jebel Akhdar uplands.
- The archaeological remains cover several hectares and include several monumental temples, stoas, theatres, bathhouses, churches, and palatial residences.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cyrene, Libya article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Cyrene, Libya
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More History cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Cyrene, Libya in the power ranking, all domains together.
- John James AudubonUncommon · Arts · ATK 83 DEF 97
- SmokingUncommon · Society · ATK 87 DEF 93
- AvtoVAZUncommon · Society · ATK 80 DEF 100
- Ding JunhuiUncommon · Society · ATK 91 DEF 89
- Green iguanaUncommon · Nature · ATK 80 DEF 100
- Vladimir MayakovskyUncommon · Arts · ATK 82 DEF 98
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- History cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cyrene, Libya (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Maher27777, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
