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Nannus
Nannus was, according to the foundation legend of Massalia, king of the Segobrigii, a people living near the site of Marseille. In the story told by the Roman historian Justin, he welcomed Greek settlers from Phocaea, and when his daughter Gyptis chose their leader Protis as her husband, he gave them land on which to found the city around 600 BCE.
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