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Meciris

Meciris a town of Marmarica, which the Peutinger Table places at 33 M. P. to the E. of Paliurus; the Antonine Itinerary has a town MICHERA (one MS. reads Mecira), 20 M. P. to the E. of the same place; its position must be sought in the Wady-er-Rêma (Barth, Wanderungen, pp. 509, 549.)

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.