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Lake Tritonis
Lake Tritonis was a large body of fresh water in northern Africa that was described in many ancient texts. Classical-era Greek writers placed the lake in what today is southern Tunisia. In details of the late myths and personal observations related by these historians, the lake was said to be named after Triton. According to Herodotus it contained two islands, Phla, which the Lacedaemonians were to have colonized, according to an oracle, and Mene.
==Location==
The location is unclear. The lake is mentioned as being in Libya, a land the ancient Greeks believed encircled their world, "washed on all sides by the sea," Herodotus said,〔Herodotus, iv.42 ((on-line text )).〕 "except where it is attached to Asia." In their knowledge, Libya extended from Ancient Egypt, the Nile Valley and its basin, to the Atlantic Ocean and along the south of Ancient Egypt.
Both Herodotus〔Herodotus, iv.179.〕 in the fifth century B.C. and Diodorus in the first century A.D. described the lake, Herodotus giving it an area of 2,300 km² (900 mi²), or, half the size of the contemporary United States state, Rhode Island. Herodotus assumed that there would have to be a large river flowing into it, which he called the Triton.〔Herodotus, iv.179; "he supposed it to be a lake like any other, and that a lake of such extent should have a large river as its feeder was but a natural assumption" remarked Edward Herbert Bunbury, ''A History of Ancient Geography among the Greeks and Romans'' vol. I (1883) note S, p. 315.〕
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