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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 1004 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAGUNTUM , now Sagunto or Murviedro, an See also:

ancient See also:town The Ahaggar See also:plateau is not inferior to the See also:Alps la See also:area, but its in a fertile See also:district 0f eastern See also:Spain (Castellon de la Plana) I highest peaks do not greatly exceed 8000 ft. They are believed N. of See also:Valencia, See also:close to the See also:coast. Its See also:history comprises to be volcanic like those of See also:Auvergne. Upon their summits See also:snow 20 M. Y comPr is reputed to See also:lie from See also:December to See also:March. See also:South-See also:east of tho one brief flash of tragic See also:glory and a See also:long obscure happiness. See also:main plateau, and partly filling the valley between the Ahaggar At the outbreak of the Second Punic See also:War (219 B.C.) it was a plateau and the Tasili of the Asjer (see infra); are the Anahef large and commercially prosperous town of native—not See also:Greek— mountains. To the See also:north the valley is again contracted by the Irawen mountains. origin. It sided with See also:Rome against See also:Carthage, and See also:drew See also:Hannibal's Besides this central See also:group of mountains, sometimes spoken of as first See also:assault. Its long and See also:noble resistance, told by the See also:Roman the Atakor-'n-Ahaggar (Summits of the Ahaggar);-there are various historian See also:Livy in no less noble See also:language, ranks with the See also:Spanish other massifs in the See also:Sahara. On the north-See also:west of the See also:Mountain See also:defence of See also:Saragossa in the See also:Peninsular War. Finally in 218 Ahaggar, and separated from it by a wide See also:plain, is the ranges.

Hannibal took it and passed on into ItalYThen we hear little Muidir plateau, which extends nearly east and west 200 m. North-east of the Ahaggar (in the direction of See also:

Tripoli) is the Tasili more of it till at the opening of the See also:Christian era it appears of the Asjer (4000-5000 ft.), which runs for 300 m. in a N.E. to S.E. as a flourishing Romano-Spanish town with a Latin-speaking direction. South-east of the Tasili of the Asjer is a range of hills See also:population and the See also:rank of See also:municipium. This later prosperity known as the Tummo (or War) mountains. Still farther south is the lasted most of the See also:empire through, and is attested b See also:inscriptions mountainous region of See also:Tibesti (or TO, with an See also:average height of Y some 7000 ft., the volcanic See also:cone of Tussid rising to an estimated and ruins (notably a See also:theatre, demolished by See also:Suchet). height of 8800 ft.

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