-
Marmarica proper was
delimited towards the east by the
escarpment of
Catabathmus Magnus, now
known as
Akabah el-Kebir, at Salum.
Under the
Roman Empire...
- of
Egypt branch.
Local people are
mentioned in some
Roman accounts of
Catabathmus Maior/Magnus (referring to the local,
obstructive ridge to east–west...
- "the
fashion of
dividing Asia and
Africa at the Nile, or at the
Great Catabathmus [the
boundary between Egypt and Libya] ****her west, had even then scarcely...
- in ****enistic geography. The
boundary between Africa and Asia was at
Catabathmus Magnus,
separating Libya proper (or Marmarica) from the "Libyan Nomos"...
- the gulf/bay and the town of Salum. To
ancient Rome it was
known as
Catabathmus Magnus, in the peak of
whose empire it
divorced Aegyptus from Marmarica...
- as part of Asia,
taking the
boundary of Asia and
Egypt to lie at the
Catabathmus Magnus (the
escarpment of
Akabah el-Kebir in
western Egypt). Ptolemy's...
- Libya, and its
eastern extent was
taken to be
around Marmarica, at the
Catabathmus Magnus. This was not
considered to be a continent. As
wider knowledge...
- antiquity,
Egypt had been
considered part of Asia,[citation needed] with the
Catabathmus Magnus escarpment taken as the
boundary with
Africa (Libya). Egypt:...
- the Phileni.
Cyrene may also have
extended its
control eastwards to
Catabathmus Magnus.
Cyrene constructed a
treasury at
Delphi between 350 and 325 BC...
