Pappua Mons
Παππούα
Pappua Mons (Παππούα, Procop. B. 5.2.4,7), the inaccessible mountain country in the interior of Numidia, where the conquest of Africa was completed by Belisarius, in the spring of A.D. 534, and where Gelimer, the last of the Vandal kings, was taken. (Le Beau, Bas Empire, vol. viii. p. 248; Gibbon, c. xii.)
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.