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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites

Mainake

TORRE DEL MARE (Town) ANDALUCIA
Mainake Malaga, Spain.
A Greek colony E of Malaga. According to Avienus 425-35, Mainake was located near Cape Barbetium and the Malacha river. Opposite the city was a marshy island dedicated to Noctiluca, with a port. According to a text of Ephorus, preserved in the Pseudo-Skymnos (147-50), it was the most remote Greek colony in the Occident, a Massaliote city near one of the islands that made up the Pillars of Hercules.

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