GAETULIA, a district in the north of Africa, which in the usage of Roman writers comprised the wandering tribes of the southern slopes of Mount Aures and the Atlas, as far as the Atlantic, and the oases in the northern part of the Sahara. They were distinguished from the Negro people to the south, and be longed to the Berber race which formed the population of Numi dia (q.v.). The tribes to be found there at the present day are probably of the same race, and retain the same wandering habits. They were noted for the rearing of horses, were clad in skins, lived on flesh and milk, and the only manufacture connected with their name is that of purple dye.
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