RISARDIR(Polyb. ap. Plin. 5.1), a harbour on the W. coast of Mauretania, which may be identified with the ACRA of the Ship-journal of Hanno (Ἄκρα, Peripl. § 5, ed. Müller. It now bears the name of Agader, signifying in the Berber language (Paradis, Dictionnaire Berbère, p. 110) a fortress,and is described as being the best roadstead along t e coast of Marocco. Agaderor Santa Cruz, which was called Guertguessem in the time of Leo Africanus, was walled round and strengthened by batteries in 1503 by Emanuel, king of Portugal; but was taken from the Portuguese by the Moors in 1536. (Jackson, Morocco, p. 113; Journ. of Geogr. Soc. vol. 6. p. 292.)
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