BATRASABBES
BATRASABBES (or Batrasaves), a town of the Omani (now
Omàn) in Arabia, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, and near to Cape Mussendom (
Plin. Nat. 6.28. s. 32), identical in situation with the Black Mountains and Cape of Asabi, and still marked by a town and district named Sabee, close to C. Mussendom. (Forster,
Arabia, vol. ii. p. 225.)
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