Mamma
Μαμμή
Mamma (Μαμμή), a district in Byzacena, at the foot of a chain of lofty mountains, where in A.D. 536 the eunuch Solomon, with 10,000 Romans, inflicted a signal defeat upon 50,000 Moors. (Procop. B. V. 2.11; Corippus, Johannis, 6.283; Theophan. p. 170; Auast. p. 61; Le Beau, Bas Empire, vol. viii. pp. 307--311; comp. Gibbon, c. xli.) Justinian afterwards fortified. Mamma (Procop. de Aed. 6.6), which is represented by the plains lying under the slopes of Jebel Truzza near Kíruân, in the Regency of Tunis. (Barth, Wanderungen, pp. 247, 285.)
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.