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Berlioux, Etienne Félix

Étienne Félix Berlioux (1828-1910) was a 19th century French professor of geography in Lyon. In an 1883 book he placed Atlantis on the Atlantic coast of Morocco between Agadir (a variant of Gades) and Casablanca[163]. According to Berlioux this location was the site of the city of Cerne the capital of the Atlantes referred to by Diodorus Siculus and Herodotus(c).

 

In 1907 he presented a series of papers entitled ‘Morocco and the Atlanteans’ for the Academy of Sciences at Lyons. Berlioux also wrote an account of the slave trade in Africa in the 1870’s[164].

 

Jonas Bergman places Atlantis further north near Rabat.

 

His book on Atlantis, in French, can be read online(a).>>The Introduction to which has been translated into English by Jason Colavito(b).<<

 

(a) https://archive.org/details/lesatlanteshist00berlgoog

(b) https://www.jasoncolavito.com/atlantis-in-morocco.html *

(c) Atlanteans in Africa: Herodotus and Dionysius Skytobrachion (arcus-atlantis.org.uk) *