Ardanis

ARDANIS or ARDANIA (Ἀρδανίς ἄκρα, Ptol. 4.5.2; Peripl.; Ἀρδανία, Strab. 1. p. 40, corrupted into Ἀρδανάξης, 17. p. 838: Ras-al-Milhr), a low promontory, with a roadstead, on the N. coast of Africa, in that part of Marmarica which belonged to Cyrene, between Petra Magna and Menelaus Portus; at the point where the coast suddenly falls off to the S. before the commencement of the Catabathmus Magnus.