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TAURE´SIUM

TAURE´SIUM (Ταυρήσιον, Procop. de Aed. 4.1. p. 266), a place in Moesia Superior, near Scupi or Justiniana Prima. It was situated in. the Haemus, not far from the borders, and was the birthplace of the emperor Justinian. (Cf. Gibbon, vol. v. p. 79, ed. Smith.)

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