ALBUCELLA
ALBUCELLA (
Ἀλβόκελα:
Villa Fasila), a city of the Vaccaei in Hispania Tarraconensis (Itin. Ant.; Ptol.), probably the Arbocala (
Ἀρβουκάλη) which is mentioned by Polybius (
3.14), Livy (
21.5), and Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v.), as the chief city of the Vaccaei, the taking of which, after an obstinate resistance, was one of Hannibal's first exploits in Spain, B.C. 218.
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