Emporicus Sinus
δ Ἐμπορικὸς κόλπος
Emporicus Sinus (δ Ἐμπορικὸς κόλπος), a gulf on the W. coast of Mauretania Tingitana, between the towns of Sala (Salee) and Lixus (El-Araish). It derived its name from the mercantile settlements of the Phoenicians. Strabo says that the tides were here so great, that at high water the country was overflowed 7 stadia inland; a statement confirmed by the great swamps which now cover the district. (Strab. xvii. pp. 825, 829; Ptol. 4.1.)
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.