IBIO´NES
Eth.
IBIO´NES,
VIBIO´NES (
Ἰβιώνες,
al. Οὐιβιώνες,
Ptol. 3.5.23), a Slavonian people of Sarmatia Europaea, whom Schafarik (
Slav. Alt. vol. i. p. 213) looks for in the neighbourhood of a river
Iva-Iviza-Ivinka, of which there are several in Russia deriving their name from “iwa” == “Salix Alba,” or the common white willow.
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