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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] The only properly cited primary document account we have of Aethiopes overrunning Libya is the statement in Ephorus' report from the Tartessians as in Strabo. [QUOTE] Originally posted 18 November, 2009 by Dana Marniche: [i] "Ephorus says the Tartessians report that [URL=http://www.]Ethiopians overran Libya as far as Dyris[/URL], and that [URL=http://www.]some of them stayed in Dyris[/URL], while [URL=http://www.]others occupied a [b]great[/b] part of the sea-board[/URL]; and he conjectures it was from this circumstance that Homer spoke as he did: 'Ethiopians that are sundered in twain, the farthermost of men.'"[/i] [b] Strabo[/b][i] Geography[/i] 1.2.26[/QUOTE]Simply put, "a great part of the sea-board" north of 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. Whether Ephorus, writing in the 4th century BCE about earlier events, had in mind with "seacoast" either Mediterranean or Atlantic or both, all choices are firmly located in Mauretania. That fact is why Maur and Aethiop can at times be synonymous in 1st millenium CE Latin texts. * northward Aethiop movement beyond Atlas * Moor <- Mauri = black i.e., synonymous w/Aethiop Ephorus' pre-350 BCE Aethiopes are an ancestral component of post 42 CE Mauretanian population. [IMG]http://www.erlebnis-tours-maroc.com/images/Photos/physical%20map.jpg[/IMG] Map 1. showing the extent of the Anti, High, and Middle Atlases and the Rif. [IMG]http://www.journeybeyondtravel.com/images/morocco-map.jpg[/IMG] Map 2. showing Nador at Middle Atlas Mediterranean sea-board from R. Moulouya [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yoRaUjKGNso/TB9llH1-rUI/AAAAAAAAAJk/NQ2P_IMK9Qo/s400/Mauritania+tingitana.png[/IMG] Map 3. Mauretania Tingitana (courtesy Tamazya War Tilisa [IMG]http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/6273/historyalmoravids.gif[/IMG] Map 4. 1000 years later international polity of the descendents of the early Mauri/Aethiopes [/QB][/QUOTE]
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