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Mauretania

Mauretania was a Roman province on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa, where Algeria is now, east of Morocco.

It is not the same place as where Mauritania is now, on the Atlantic coast south of Morocco.

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The RMS Mauretania was a ship operated by the Cunard Line.