Although some in the state of Cyrenaica in eastern Libya call for a federal movement, a democratic and permissible movement, the secession of Cyrenaica from Libya will not pass smoothly and calmly, given the “oil curse” in the state of Cyrenaica, where the ports of export, and its south, which can also demand secession. Due to the presence of this "revenge" on its territory.
The separation of the Wilayat of Cyrenaica from its sisters, Fezzan and Tripoli, will not be easy; As the original component of most of the population of Libya from the ancient Greeks in eastern Libya, and the Romans and Phoenicians in its west tens of thousands of years ago, and the component of the population of modern Libya are the Arabs of the island, and the minority component of the white-skinned Berbers, the brown Berbers who are the Tuareg, and the black Africans ( Tobu).
As for the original inhabitants of Cyrenaica, they are of Arab origins (Bani Hilal and Bani Selim), with a minority of Greeks, Turks, Africans and other Egyptian immigrants from the Eastern Desert region (p. sh ».
Also for the modern state of Cyrenaica, “especially the areas of Benghazi”; Most of its residents are due to the tribes of western Libya and "other minorities from southern Libya".
Among the residents of Benghazi who found support in the tribes of the East, and belonged to them, a desire from these tribes to inflate their size.
These components have lived in the city of Benghazi and nearby cities for hundreds of years. They also intermarried with the tribes of the East, where you will not find now residents of Benghazi in particular, and in the state of Cyrenaica in general, one family did not participate by intermarriage or even mixing with others.
The origins of most of the inhabitants of the state of Cyrenaica, the people of Libya, trace their origins back to the regions of the Arabian Peninsula, especially what is now called Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and most of them are from the tribes of Bani Hilal and Bani Salim who came in the past to spread Islam, and recently hundreds of years ago they came from the Andalusian regions, migrating from the Spaniards through the countries of Morocco and Algeria Tunisia and even Mauritania and others.
They also came from Egypt, Turkey, Chechnya, Albania and even Chad and Niger.
source : alwassat website