Hannon (navigator)
See also: Hannon
Hannon is a navigator and exploring Carthaginian which explored part of the African coasts on a dubious date, between 630 and 530 before J. - C.
Started from Carthage with many ships and a few thousands of men to establish a colony, it crosses the Pillars of Hercules (strait of Gibraltar). It bases or repopulates seven Carthaginian cities on the Atlantic coast of the Morocco.
It would have skirted the coast of the Western Africa until a limit prone to conjectures, probably around the Tropique of Cancer but perhaps until the course of the Palms (current Liberia) or until the Golfe of Guinea, for Mont Cameroun.
Returned in Carthage, it made engrave the relation of this voyage in the temple of Baal-Hammon. Its voyage is known under the name of “Périple of Hannon”.
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