Rusadir
Ῥυσσάδειρον
Rusadir (Plin. v. l; Ῥυσσάδειρον, Ptol. 4.1.7; Russader, Itin. Ant.), a colonia of Mauretania, situated near Metagonites Prom., which appears sometimes to have been called from the town Rusadir (Ptol. 4.1.12). It is represented by the barádero
of Melilla, or Spanish penal fortress, on the bight formed between C. Tres Forcas and the Mlûia.
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.