Garamantes
Noun
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Garamantes pl (plural only)
English Wikipedia has an article on:GaramantesWikipedia
(historical) An ancient Saharan people who used an elaborate underground irrigation system, and founded a prosperous Berber kingdom in what is modern-day Libya.
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Birley (1999), p. 134. In 202, he campaigned in Africa and Mauretania against the Garamantes ; capturing their capital Garama and expanding the Limes Tripolitanus along the southern frontier of the empire.
Italian archeologists, working in the 1930’s at the height of their Libyan colonization, thought the Garamantes must have been of Phoenician, Egyptian or Mediterranean origin.
“I would ride my bicycle out to see what they were doing,” says Abedelaziz, “but I was still too young to know anything about the Garamantes.”