VA´RIA
VA´RIA (
Οὐαρία,
Strab. iii. p.162;
Οὐάρεια,
Ptol. 2.6.55), a town of the Berones in Hispania Tarraconensis, situated on the Iberus, which here began
[p. 2.1259]to be navigable (
Plin. Nat. 2.3. s. 4), and where also the main road through Spain crossed the river, between Calagurra and Tritium. (
Itin. Ant. p. 393, where, under the name of Verela, the same town is undoubtedly meant.) Usually identified with
Varea (cf. Florez,
Cantabr. p. 198), though some have sought it at
Logroño, and others at
Murillo de Rio Leza. [
T.H.D]