Mæris, LAKE

In the Egyptian FAYUM (q.v.). Extreme length 35 m. The investigations of Cope White house have given credence to the ancient accounts of the much larger dimensions of this origin originally artificial lake, which was connected with the Nile by a canal and used to regulate the inundation as a storage reservoir. Mæsia. Roman province s. of the Danube; conquered 29 and 15 B.C.; invaded from ab. 250 by Goths, some of whom settled there 375 and later; occupied by Slavs ab.600, and made Bulgaria and Servia.