Praesidium
Praesidium a military post on the Greater Syrtis, between Tagulae or Tugulae (Kasr-el-Atech) and Ad Turrem. (Peut. Tab.) The result of Barth's (Wanderungen, pp. 372--377) laborious researches upon the ancient topography of the Great Syrtis, is to place this station at Jehudîa, where there are remains of antiquity.
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.