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[QUOTE]Originally posted by melchior7: [QB] [b]Simply put, "a great part of the sea-board" northof Dyris is a subset of the whole said sea-board which stretches on the Atlantic side of Morocco from modern Tiznit (re Anti-Atlas) or Essaouira (re High Atlas) to Morocco's Mediterranean side at Nador (re Middle Atlas). Some Aethiopes who left Dyris to "occupy a great part of the sea-board" would have traveled the Moulouya river for direct easy travel to the Mediterranean just as easily as moving northward along the coast of the Atlantic by others. Since Strabo uses the word sea-board in the singular not the plural we see the whole of what the Romans called Mauretania Tingitana is involved.[/b] Thats your interpretation. There is a significant amount of tesitimony from the ancients that light skinned peoples lived above the Atlas. Pliny and Ptolemy both mention "Leukaethiops" in Morocco and contrast them with and the "Nigritae". "The Roman administrator and historian, Gaius Crispus Sallust, says of people of North Africa. North Africa was first occupied by Libyans and Getulians, who were a barbarous people, a heterogeneous mass, or agglomeration of people of different races, without any form of religion or government, nourishing themselves on herbs, or devouring the raw flesh of animals killed in the chase; for first amongst these were found Blacks, probably some from the interior of Africa, and belonging to the great negro family; then whites, issue of the Semitic stock, who apparently constituted, even at that early period, the dominant race or caste. Later, but at an epoch absolutely unknown, a new horde of Asiatics of Medes, Persians, and Armenians, invaded the countries of the Atlas, and, led on by Hercules, pushed their conquests as far as Spain." Of course his story about Medes and Armenians reaching Spain under Hercules is fantastical conjecture,yet it is his attempt to explain the appearance and origins of the folks that lived in these regions. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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