IGILGILI
Eth.
IGILGILI (
Ἰγιλγιλί, Ptol.:
Jijeli), a sea-port of Mauretania Caesariensis, on the Sinus Numidicus, made a Roman colony by Augustus.
It stands on a headland, on the E. side of which a natural roadstead is formed by a reef of rocks running parallel to the shore; and it was probably in ancient times the emporium of the surrounding country. (
Itin. Ant. p. 18;
Plin. Nat. 5.2. s. 1 ;
Ptol. 4.2.11; Ammian. Marc. 29.5;
Tab. Peut.; Shaw.
Travels, p. 45; Barth,
Wanderungen, &c., p. 66.)
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