SUBUR
SUBUR (
Σούβουρ,
Ptol. 4.1.13).
1.
A town in the interior of Mauretania Tingitana, near the river of the same name.
2.
(
Ptol. 4.1.2), a river of Mauretania Tingitana. Pliny (
5.1. s. 1) calls it a fine navigable river.
It fell into the Atlantic near Colonia Banasa, 50 miles S. of Lixus.
It is still called
Subu or
Cubu, and rises among the forests of
Mount Salelo in the province of
Sciaus (Graberg of Hemsö,
Das Kaiserreich Marokko, tr. by Reumont, p. 12). [
T.H.D]