The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . ns of what was probably the town of Taberna. ^To the nearest open port, Laraiche, there is a fairly levelroad of some twenty-five miles, with nothing of intereston the way, but a very pleasant luncheon place is anoleander grove, at two thirds of the distance. The exact position of the town is 35° 28 N. by6° 2 W. ?•?? A Visit to JVazan^i ch. vi. See also TiSSOT, Manritajiic Tingitanie.,pp. 178—181; Capel Brooke, Sketches., vol. ii., p. 36, and A. illustrations see The Moorish Einpire.^ pp. 5 and 9. -(? In 1683 Marseilles traders l
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . ns of what was probably the town of Taberna. ^To the nearest open port, Laraiche, there is a fairly levelroad of some twenty-five miles, with nothing of intereston the way, but a very pleasant luncheon place is anoleander grove, at two thirds of the distance. The exact position of the town is 35° 28 N. by6° 2 W. ?•?? A Visit to JVazan^i ch. vi. See also TiSSOT, Manritajiic Tingitanie.,pp. 178—181; Capel Brooke, Sketches., vol. ii., p. 36, and A. illustrations see The Moorish Einpire.^ pp. 5 and 9. -(? In 1683 Marseilles traders landed here.* Relation Ciirieuse, \>. 4. * TissoT, \>. 134. lb. p. 137. * MouETTE, Captivity, p. 306. A VANISHED FORT 227 , NEW M AMORA or MEHDUMA. No little confusion has been caused in works on thiscountry by the application to the port of Mchediya* TheSheltered,—which lay on the south side of the estuaryof the Sebu, of the name Maniora— The Replenished —which belonsijs to the forest district behind, and to the. GATEWAY AT MEHIiDlVA. Photograpli by Ilcibert Wliilc, Esq. remains of another town on the Sebu in that district,some way hiijher u]), near Sidi Ali bu Jenan, identifiedby an inscription found on the spot, with the RomanColonia Aelia Banasa Valentia. f The other name by * Tissol ihinks il may liave been named after Ibn Tumart, llie Malidi,by his disciple iVbd el Mumin, first of tlie Muwahhadts. to wliom itsbuilding is ascribed. t The historical light tlirowii by the discovery of this inscription isably discussed b M. Ernest Desjardias in the Rrrue Archcologitjtic (Paris)for 1872, (|vol., xxiii., p. 360). He shows its date to be 177, and to 228 MEHEDIYA which Mehediya has become known is a consequence of its fate, for Mehdunia signifies The Ruined. It was probably the Thymaterion of Hanno and Scylax, the first Carthaginian Colony. The Spaniards re-named it San Miguel Ultramar. The port is mentioned as Mehediya in 941,* and in 1158 it was
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