Ardanis
Ἀρδανίς ἄκπα
Ardanis or ARDANIA (Ἀρδανίς ἄκπα, Ptol. 4.5.2; Peripl.; Ἀρδανία, Strab. i. p.40, corrupted into Ἀρδανάξης, xvii. p. 838: Ras-al-Milhr), a low promontory, with a roadstead, on the N. coast of Africa, in that part of Marmarica which belonged to Cyrene, between Petra Magna and Menelaus Portus; at the point where the coast suddenly falls off to the S. before the commencement of the Catabathmus Magnus.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.