SAGUNTUM  , now Sagunto or Murviedro, an

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

Tripoli) is the Tasili more of it till at the opening of the 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 population and the rank of municipium . This later prosperity known as the Tummo (or War) mountains . Still farther south is the lasted most of the empire through, and is attested b inscriptions mountainous region of Tibesti (or TO, with an average height of Y some 7000 ft., the volcanic cone of Tussid rising to an estimated and ruins (notably a theatre, demolished by Suchet). height of 8800 ft .