PATAVISSA
PATAVISSA (
Πατρουίσσα,
Ptol. 3.8.7, wrongly), a small town of Dacia, endowed by the emperor Severus with the
jus coloniae. (Ulpian,
Dig. 1.8. 9, where it is called Patavicensium vicus.) Variously identified with
Mar-Ujvar, or with
Ptovis or
Tovis, on the
Marosch; also with
Bogatz and
St. Kiraly, on a tributary of the same river.
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