{"id":1770,"date":"2010-05-26T16:07:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T16:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2025-11-22T10:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:28:31","slug":"ali-bey-el-abbassi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ali-bey-el-abbassi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Bey El Abbassi"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/strong>li<\/strong> B<\/strong>ey<\/strong> El <\/strong>A<\/strong>bbassi <\/strong>(1766-1818) <\/strong>was one of the assumed names of Domingo \"\"<\/a>Badia y Leblich, a Spanish traveller and thought to be a spy for Joseph Bonaparte. Early in the 19th<\/sup> century, he published The Ancient Island of Atlantis<\/em>[<\/sup>012<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0 an account of his journeys in North Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He wrote of the Atlas Mountains being the ancient island of Atlantis when the Sahara was a huge interior sea in the centre of Africa, known as Mar de la Nigricia<\/em>. A map of 1802 based on Ali Bey’s description of this inland sea, is available on the Internet(a)<\/sup>. The same map shows Atlantis extending from Tunisia and Libya into the Mediterranean filling most of the Gulf of Sirtis<\/a>. Alberto Arecchi<\/a>, in more recent times, has proposed a similar geographical spread for Atlantis(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ali Bey appears to have been the first to suggest North Africa as the location of Atlantis an idea that then lay dormant for half a century until 1868 when D.A. Godron<\/a> advocated Morocco<\/a> as its home.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A 2004 essay by M. Carme Montaner & Anna Maria Casassas describes the life and times of Ali Bey(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(a) <\/sup>Afriterra \u2013 The Cartographic Free Library<\/a>\u00a0 (see #1036)
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> http:\/\/www.ub.edu\/gehc\/pdf\/spying.pdf<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ali Bey El Abbassi (1766-1818) was one of the assumed names of Domingo Badia y Leblich, a Spanish traveller and thought to be a spy for Joseph Bonaparte. Early in the 19th century, he published The Ancient Island of Atlantis[012]\u00a0 an account of his journeys in North Africa and the Middle East.   He wrote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[234,1782,1783,59,30],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alberto-arecchi","tag-ali-bey-el-abbassi","tag-d-a-godron","tag-morocco","tag-north-africa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65289,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/65289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}