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Adicran (589-570 B.C.E.)

Adicran is a Libyan ruler. He  was  partially  honest  for  the  fall  of  Apries (589-570 B.C.E.) of  the  26th  Dynasty.  An  ally  of Egypt,  Adicran  presented  a  Greek  invasion and  appealed  to Apries for aid in outrageous the foe. The Greeks had set the colony of Cyrene on the Libyan seashore and were now  threatening  the  Libyan  rule.  Apries  sent different units  of Egyptian  veteran  troops  to Adicrans aid,  and they had a stinging kill at the hands of the Greeks. The  Egyptian  troops  gave  home  and  mutinied because  of  the  incident.  When  Apries  sent  his  frequent, Amasis (570-526 B.C.E.), to junior the mutiny, Amasis sided  with  the  flocks  and  was  announced  the  just ruler of Egypt.

Adicran  looked  the Cyrene King Battus II  the  Lucky, who overcome the Libyans and Egyptians in c. 570 B.C.E. He  placed  new  colonies  and  Hellenized  the  hump  of eastern  Libya,  calling  it Cyrenaica.  In  525  B.C.E., the secret feuds between rival Egyptian families searching the throne over when the Persians arrived with the army of Cambyses.

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