HANNO, Carthaginian Navigator

hănˈō, fl. c.480? b.c., Carthaginian navigator. He founded seven towns on the Atlantic shore of Morocco and probably explored the Atlantic coast of Africa to Sierra Leone.

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A History of the Roman People
Book by Fritz M. Heichelheim, Cedric A. Yeo; Prentice-Hall, 1962
Subjects: Rome--Civilization, Rome--History
...river, 146 , 207 , 215 Hamilcar Barca Carthaginian general, statesman, father of Hannibal...Italy and defeat at Zama, 135 -36 Hanno the Great Carthaginian senator , 119 , 120 Hanno Carthaginian navigator , 113 Harbors of Italy, see Italy...
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The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts
Book by William Rose Benét; Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Literature--Dictionaries, Music--Dictionaries
...Hannibal 249-183 B. C. . Carthaginian general, son of HAMILCAR BARCA...Rome by committing suicide. Hanno. Carthaginian navigator who led a colonizing expedition...Africa 5th century B. C. . Hanno the Great. Carthaginian politician...
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Oscar Wilde: The Major Works
Book by Isobel Murray, Oscar Wilde; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Wilde, Oscar--1854-1900--Criticism And Interpretation
...AD 77. It makes no distinction between the true and the false, but is the only source on many matters. Hanno . Carthaginian navigator of 6th-5th centuries BC, whose Periplus records his exploration of the western coast of Africa. Froissart...
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Walden
Book by Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Fender; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Fiction, Solitude, Thoreau, Henry David--1817-1862
Hanno : the Carthaginian navigator of the fifth century BC, author of the Periplus literally: sailing around , an account of a voyage out beyond the Straits of...
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Amerigo Vespucci: Pilot Major
Book by Frederick J. Pohl; Columbia University Press, 1944
Subjects: America--Discovery And Exploration, Vespucci, Amerigo--1451-1512
...their right hand, or on the land side. Hanno, the Carthaginian, was said to have sailed from Gades Cadiz...and Caelius Antipater wrote that the Carthaginian navigator Himilco did what Hanno did. There was a statement by Posidonius...
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Hanno , Carthaginian Navigator
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HANNO , Carthaginian navigator han o, fl. c.480? b.c., Carthaginian navigator. He founded seven towns on the Atlantic shore of Morocco and probably explored the Atlantic coast of Africa to Sierra Leone...
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Carthage , Ancient City, N Africa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...b.c. the Carthaginians established themselves...Islands. The navigator Hanno is supposed to...completely under Carthaginian control. The...in the powerful Carthaginian family usually...preserved, but the Carthaginian threat continued...Roman name for the Carthaginians, Poeni, i...


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