AFRICA generally means in Tacitus that part which was made a proconsular province, of which Carthage was the capital; now the territory of _Tunis_. AGRIPPINENSIS COLONIA, so called from Agrippina, the daughter of Germanicus, mother of Nero, and afterwards wife of the emperor Claudius. This place is now called _Cologne_, situate on the Rhine. ALBA, a town of Latium, in Italy, the residence of the Alban kings; destroyed by Tullus Hostilius. ALBANIA, a country of Asia, bounded on the west by Iberia, on the east by the Caspian Sea, on the south by Armenia, and on the north by Mount Caucasus. ALBINGANUM; now _Albinga_, to the west of the territory of Genoa, at the mouth of the river _Cente_. ALBIS, now the _Elbe_; a river that rises in the confines of _Silesia_, and, after a wide circuit, falls into the German sea below _Hamburgh_. ALBIUM INTEMELIUM; now _Vintimiglia_, south-west of the territory of Genoa, with a port on the Mediterranean, between _Monaco_ and _S. Remo_. ALESIA, a town in Celtic Gaul, situate on a hill. It was besieged by Julius Cæsar. See his Commentaries, lib. vii. s. 77. ALEXANDRIA, a principal city of Egypt, built by Alexander the Great, on the Mediterranean; famous for the library begun by Ptolemy Philadelphus, and consisting at last of seven hundred thousand volumes, till in Cæsar's expedition it was destroyed by fire. ALISO, a fort built by Drusus, the father of Germanicus, in the part of Germany now called Westphalia, near the city of _Paderborn_. ALLIA, river of Italy, running into the Tiber, about forty miles from Rome; famous for the slaughter of the Romans by the Gauls, under Brennus. ALLOBROGES, a people of Narbon Gaul, situate between the Rhodanus and the Lacus Lemanus. ALPS, a range of high mountains separating Italy from Gaul and Germany. They are distinguished into different parts, under several names: such as the _Maritime Alps_, near Genoa; the _Cottian Alps_, separating Dauphiné from Piedmont; the _Graian Alps_, beginning from Mount Cenis, where the _Cottian_ terminate, and extending to Great St. Bernard; the _Pennine Alps_, extending from west to east to the _Rhetian Alps_, the _Alpes Noricæ_, and the _Pannonian Alps_, as far as the springs of the _Kulpe_. Their height in some places is almost incredible. They are called _Alps_, from _Alpen_, a Celtic term for high mountains. ALTINUM, a town in the territory of Venice, on the Adriatic; now in ruins, except a tower, still retaining the name of _Altino_. AMANUS, a mountain of Syria, separating it from Cilicia; now called _Montagna Neros_ by the inhabitants; that is, the watery mountain, abounding in springs and rivulets. AMATHUS, a maritime town of Cyprus, consecrated to Venus, with an ancient temple of Adonis and Venus: it is now called _Limisso_. AMAZONIA, a country near the river Thermodon, in Pontus. AMISIA, now the _Ems_; a river of Germany that falls into the German sea, near Embden. AMORGOS, an island in the Egean sea, now Amorgo.