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MIROBRIGA

MIROBRIGA (Μιρόβριγα).


1.

Also called MEROBRICA (Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 35; Coins), a town of the Celtici in Lusitania, upon the Ocean (Ptol. 2.5.6), identified by some with Odemira, by others with Sines. (Mentelle, Esp. Anc. p. 260; Ukert, 2.1. p. 390.)


2.

A Roman municipium, in the territory of the Turduli, in Hispania Baetica, on the road from Emerita to Caesaraugusta, now Capilla, N. of Fuente Ovejuna. (Ptol. 2.4.13; Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3; It. Anton. p. 444; Inscr. Gruter, pp. 76, 257.)


3.

A town of the Oretani, in Hispania Tarraconensis, mentioned only by Ptolemy (2.6.59).

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  • Cross-references from this page (5):
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 3.1
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 4.12
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 2.4
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 2.5
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 2.6
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