Tingi
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Tingis was the ancient name of Tangier in Morocco and an important Carthaginian, Mauretanian, and Roman port on the Atlantic Ocean. It was eventually granted the status of a Roman colony and made the
Location of Tingis in Roman Mauretania Tingitana
A coin of Tingi with a Punic legend
Surviving walls from Roman Tingis
Justinian and his general Belisarius, as depicted in Ravenna.
Mauretania Tingitana
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Mauretania Tingitana was a Roman province, coinciding roughly with the northern part of present-day Morocco. The territory stretched from the northern peninsula opposite Gibraltar, to Sala Colonia and
Tingi
…Mauretanian, and Roman port on the Atlantic Ocean. It was eventually granted the status of a Roman colony and made the capital of the province of Mauretania Tingitana and, after Diocletian's reforms, the diocese of Hispania. The Greeks claimed that Tingis had been named for a daughter of the titan Atlas, who was…
Roman territories in the Maghreb, showing that the southern limits of Mauretania Tingitana reached Casablanca
Sebastian Münster's Aphricae Tabula I, depicting Mauretania Tingitana in 1540