ATTA VICUS
ATTA VICUS (
Ἄττα κώμν), a town in the country of the Aetaeei, on the west of the Persian Gulf, and south
GERRHA (
Ptol. 6.7.15), which probably gave its name to the
Attene regio of Pliny (
6.28. s. 32), which he places on the Gerraicus Sinus, now the
Gulf of Bahrein. The Attene regio has been identified with the peninsula of
Bahran, which forms the eastern side of this gulf, and the Atta vicus with the modern
Khalt, a town north of
Katura (the Katara of Ptolemy), on the eastern coast of this peninsula. (Forster,
Geog. of Arabia, vol. ii. pp. 221, 223,)
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