PALLA´NTIA
PALLA´NTIA (
Παλλαντία,
Strab. iii. p.162;
Ptol. 2.6.50), the most important town of the Vaccaei, in the N. of Hispania Tarraconensis, and in the jurisdiction of Clunia. (
Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4.) Strabo (
l.c.) wrongly assigns it to the Arevaci. Now
Palencia on the
Carrion. (See D'Anville,
Geog. Ano. i. p. 23; Florez,
Esp. S. 8.4; Appian,
App. Hisp. 9.55,
13.80; Mela, 2.6.) For its coins, see Mionnet (i. p. 48). [T. H. D.1