in this arrangement cleopatra gained significant former ptolemaic territories in the levant. this included nearly all of phoenicia (centered in what is now modern lebanon) minus tyre and sidon, which remained in roman hands. she also received ptolemais akko (modern acre, israel), a city that ptolemy ii established. given her ancestral relations with the seleucids, antony granted her the region of koile-syria along the upper orontes river. she was even given the region surrounding jericho in palestine, but she leased this territory back to herod. at the expense of the nabataean king malichus i (a cousin of herod), cleopatra was also given a portion of the nabataean kingdom around the gulf of aqaba on the red sea, including ailana (modern aqaba, jordan). to the west cleopatra was handed cyrene along the libyan coast, as well as itanos and olous in roman crete. this restored much of the territory lost by the ptolemies, but did not include any territories in the aegean sea or southwest asia minor. cleopatra's control over much of these new territories was nominal, and they were still administered by roman officials. nevertheless, they enriched her kingdom and led her to declare the inauguration of a new era by double-dating her coinage in 36 bc.