biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (fl.5th-c BC)
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| biography:
| Carthaginian navigator. He undertook a voyage of exploration along the W coast of Africa, and led a fleet of 60 vessels with 30 000 settlers to found Thymaterion (now Kénitra, Morocco). He founded other colonies, and reached Cape Nun or the Bight of Benin. An account of his voyages known as Periplus of Hanno survives in a Greek translation. |
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