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\"\"<\/a>Agadir <\/strong>is a city in the southwest of Morocco<\/a>. It is situated at the Atlantic end of the Sous-Massa-Draa valley which was considered by Michael H\u00fcbner<\/a> to have\u00a0been the location of Atlantis(a)<\/sup>. The name ‘Agadir’ was identified by him as a variation of Gades<\/a>, a region of Atlantis, ruled by Gadeiros<\/a>, the twin brother of Atlas. As you will see below, another of Atlas’ siblings has also been linked with this region.<\/p>\r\n

Atlantisforschung<\/em>\u00a0 has noted that the German Atlantis researcher Paul Borchardt<\/a>, who\u00a0suspected\u00a0Atlantis\u00a0to be in the region of\u00a0Tunisia<\/a>, claimed that the name Ampheres<\/a>, one of the kings of Atlantis, was derived\u00a0from a\u00a0Berber<\/a>\u00a0tribe called ‘Am-Phares’: “They are undoubtedly the Pharusii of Ptolemy (IV, 6, 17) in the Wadi Draa south of the Atlas. Am means people. The name is still very common today.<\/em>\u00a0Borchardt thus localizes<\/em>\u201c, as\u00a0Ulrich Hofmann<\/a>, an expert on Borchard\u2019s work, remarks, “<\/em>\u00a0the area of the Ampheres on the southwestern edge of the\u00a0<\/em>Maghreb<\/a>, in modern-day\u00a0Morocco, south of the 2500m high\u00a0<\/em>Atlas Mountains<\/em><\/a>.”<\/em>(b)<\/sup><\/p>\r\n

Keep in mind that Agadir is about 3,300 km by sea from Athens <\/b>and 3,700 km from the Nile Delta. Not what you might call ‘easy striking distances’. The relevance of this is discussed more fully in the ‘Invasion<\/a>‘ entry.<\/p>\r\n

(a) <\/sup>Plato’s Atlantis in South Morocco? (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

(b)<\/sup>\u00a0Ampheres \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de<\/a>
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Agadir is a city in the southwest of Morocco. It is situated at the Atlantic end of the Sous-Massa-Draa valley which was considered by Michael H\u00fcbner to have\u00a0been the location of Atlantis(a). The name ‘Agadir’ was identified by him as a variation of Gades, a region of Atlantis, ruled by Gadeiros, the twin brother of […]<\/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":[2406,357,1061,3281,318,190,3426,2273,59,181,317,233,545],"class_list":["post-4464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agadir","tag-ampheres","tag-atlas","tag-atlas-mountains","tag-gadeiros","tag-gades","tag-maghreb","tag-michael-hubner","tag-morocco","tag-paul-borchardt","tag-sous-massa-draa","tag-tunisia","tag-ulrich-hofmann"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","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=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66416,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions\/66416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}