TAURI, a people inhabiting the _Taurica Chersonesus_, on the _Euxine_. The country is now called _Crim Tartary_. TAURINI, a people dwelling at the foot of the Alps. Their capital was called, after Augustus Cæsar, who planted a colony, there, _Augusta Taurinorum_. The modern name is _Turin_, the capital of Piedmont. TAURUS, the greatest mountain in Asia, extending from the Indian to the Ægean Sea; said to be fifty miles over, and fifteen hundred long. Its extremity to the north is called _Imaus_. TELEBOÆ, a people of Æolia or Acarnania in Greece, who removed to Italy, and settled in the isle of Capreæ. TEMNOS, an inland town of Æolia, in the Hither Asia. TENCTERI, a people of Germany. See the Manners of the Germans, s. 32. TENOS, one of the Cyclades. TERMES, a city in the Hither Spain; now a village called _Tiermes_, in Castille. TERRACINA, a city of the _Volsci_ in Latium, near the mouth of the _Ufens_, on the Tuscan Sea; now called _Terracina_, in the territory of Rome. TEUTOBURGIUM, a forest in Germany, rendered famous by the slaughter of Varus and his legions. It began in the country of the Marsi, and extended to Paderborn, Osnaburg, and Munster, between the _Ems_ and the _Luppia_. THALA, a town in Numidia, destroyed in the war of Julius Cæsar against Juba. THEBÆ, a very ancient town in the Higher Egypt, on the east side of the Nile, famous for its hundred gates. Another city of the same name in Bœotia, in Greece, said to have been built by Cadmus. It had the honour of producing two illustrious chiefs, Epaminondas and Pelopidas, and Pindar the celebrated poet. Alexander rased it to the ground; but spared the house and family of Pindar. THERMES otherwise THERMA, a town in Macedonia, afterwards called _Thessalonica_, famous for two epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians. The city stood at the head of a large bay, called _Thermæus Sinus_; now _Golfo di Salonichi_. THESSALY, a country of Greece, formerly a great part of Macedonia. THRACIA, an extensive region, bounded to the north by Mount Hæmus, to the south by the Ægean Sea, and by the Euxine and Propontis to the east. In the time of Tiberius it was an independent kingdom, but afterwards made a Roman province. THUBASCUM, a town of Mauritania in Africa. THURII, a people of ancient Italy, inhabiting a part of Lucania, between the rivers Crathis (now _Crate_), and Sybaris (now _Sibari_). TIBER, a town of ancient Latium, situate on the Anio, about twenty miles from Rome. Here Horace had his villa, and it was the frequent retreat of Augustus. Now _Tivoli_. TICINUM, a town of _Insubria_, situate on the river Ticinus, near its confluence with the Po; now _Pavia_, in Milan. TICINUS, a river of Italy falling into the Po, near the city of _Ticinum_, or Pavia; now _Tesino_. TIGRANOCERTA, a town of Armenia Major, built by Tigranes in the time of the Mithridatic war. The river _Nicephorus_ washes one side of the town. Brotier says, it is now called _Sert_ or _Sered_.