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GARAMA

Volume 7 · 66 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), the capital of the Garamantes in Libya Interior; near the springs of the Cinyphus, now in ruins. Garamantes the people. It lay to the south of the Gaedlia, extending from the springs of the Cinyphus, and the adjacency of the river Cir, to the mountains which form at the Vallis Garamantica (Pliny); or from the springs of the Bagrades to the lake Nuba (Ptolemy).