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Mesche Mons

Μέσχη

Mesche Mons (Μέσχη al. Ἰνέσχι, Ptol. 4.9.6), a mountain of Interior Africa, S. of the equator, which Ptolemy (l.c.) places in W. long. 25°, and which may be identified with part of the chain of the Mahee or Kong Mountains, to the N. of Dahomey.

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.