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VARIA´NA

VARIA´NA (Βαριάνα), a town in Lower Moesia on the Danube, was the garrison of a portion of the fifth legion and of a squadron of horse. (It. Ant. p. 220; Procop. de Aed. 4.6; Notit. Imp., where it is called Variniana and Varina.) Its site is marked by the town of Orcaja or Orcava.

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