IACCA
(Jaca) Huesca, Spain.
Town of the
Vascones in Hispania Tarraconensis, ca. 70 km N of
Huesca on the main road to France. Livy (
21.23) mentions the inhabitants, the Iacetani, in connection with
Hannibal's march through the Pyrenees on his advance
against Rome. Menioned also by Sallust (2.5) and Plutarch (
Sert. 4). We know that it minted coinage and that
it was a station on the highroad to Caesaraugusta (
Rav.
309.7). Remains of walls and buildings were visible as
late as the 19th c.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Schulten, s.v. Iaca,
RE IX: 1, 545.
J. ARCE