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MAURITANIA (Country) WEST AFRICA
Metagonitae (Metagonitai, Ptol. iv. 2. § 10), a people of Mauretania,
between the Mulucha and the Pillars of Hercules. Their name recalls the Urbes
Metagoniticae (Metagoniton poleis, Polyb. iii. 33), or settlements founded by
the Carthaginians on the NW. coast, and which seem to have formed a regular chain
from their frontier to the Pillars of Hercules (Scyl. p. 81). These marts enabled
the republic to carry on inland trade with the nomad tribes, as well as to keep
open a communication by land with Spain. (Heeren, African Nations, vol, i. p.
52, transl.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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