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It's not false just because you want it to. Also there's a pretty good chance that the etymology is actually inverted, Alantic ocean named after Atlantis. You also chose to not address the main point I was making: That the Myth (Yes, Myth) of Atantis was constructed as an allegory of civilizational regression, obviously inspired in a period that indeed took part in the Mediterranean , predating Plato, of which many ancient sources reported in their literatures and of which there are tons of archaeological evidence, and that caused the decline,destruction and relocation of many ancient dinasties, tribes, cultures and even kingdoms and empires, as well as the oblivion of very ancient trade routes. One of which happened to be an ancient culture of small city-states in the Atlantic edge of the Mediterranean that traded in crafts and metals with Phoenitia, Egypt and as far as Mittani, spoke a Celtic language and live in stone towns in low-laying riverlands until the sea swallowed it all up before receding and leaving the area turned into a marshland, the cities buried and the culture relocated and reoriented to other parts of the Peninsula.
Of course Tartessos does not equal Atlantis, but Atlantis was indeed inspired, among other lost cultures (Micene, Mittani), and perhaps predominantly in that biblical land of Tars and the Argantonian Kings.
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