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Durdus

τὸ Δοῦρδον ὄρος

Durdus (τὸ Δοῦρδον ὄρος), named by Ptolemy as one of the chief mountain ranges of Mauretania Tingitana, appears to be that part of the main chain of Atlas from which the river Malva takes its rise. Its name evidently contains the same root as Dyrin, the native name of the ATLAS

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.