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the _Palus Maeotis_, near the city now called Azoff, in the hands of the Turks. TARENTUM, now Tarento, in the province of _Otranto_. The Lacedemonians founded a colony there, and thence it was called by Horace, _Lacedaemonium Tarentum_. TARICHAEA, a town of Galilee. It was besieged and taken by Vespasian, who sent six thousand of the prisoners to assist in cutting a passage through the isthmus of Corinth. TARRACINA, a city of the Volsci in Latium, near the mouth of the _Ufens_, in the Campania of Rome. Now _Terracina_, on the Tuscan Sea. TARRACO, the capital of a division of Spain, called by the Romans _Tarraconensis_; now Taragon, a port town in Catalonia, on the Mediterranean, to the west of _Barcelona_. See HISPANIA. TARTARUS, a river running between the Po and the Athesis, (the _Adige_) from west to east, into the Adriatic; now _Tartaro_. TAUNUS, a mountain of Germany, on the other side of the Rhine; now Mount _Heyrick_, over-against _Mentz_. TAURANNITII, a people who occupied a district of _Armenia Major_, not far from _Tigranocerta_. TAURI, a people inhabiting the _Taurica Chersonesus_, on the _Euxine_. The country is now called _Crim Tartary_. TAURINI, a people dwelling at the foot of the Alps. Their capital was called, after Augustus Caesar, who planted a colony, there, _Augusta Taurinorum_. The modern name is _Turin_, the capital of Piedmont. TAURUS, the greatest mountain in Asia, extending from the Indian to the AEgean Sea; said to be fifty miles over, and fifteen hundred long. Its extremity to the north is called _Imaus_. TELEBOAE, a people of AEolia or Acarnania in Greece, who removed to Italy, and settled in the isle of Capreae. TEMNOS, an inland town of AEolia, in the Hither Asia. TENCTERI, a people of Germany. See the Manners of the Germans, s. 32. TENOS, one of the Cyclades. TERMES, a city in the Hither Spain; now a village called _Tiermes_, in Castille. TERRACINA, a city of the _Volsci_ in Latium, near the mouth of the _Ufens_, on the Tuscan Sea; now called _Terracina_, in the territory of Rome. TEUTOBURGIUM, a forest in Germany, rendered famous by the slaughter of Varus and his legions. It began in the country of the Marsi, and extended to Paderborn, Osnaburg, and Munster, between the _Ems_ and the _Luppia_. THALA, a town in Numidia, destroyed in the war of Julius Caesar against Juba. THEBAE, a very ancient town in the Higher Egypt, on the east side of the N
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