JULIOBRI´GA
JULIOBRI´GA (
Ἰουλιόβριγα), the chief city of the Cantabri, in Hispania Tarraconensis, belonging to the conventus of Clunia, stood near the sources of the
Ebro, on the eminence of
Retortillo, S. of
Reyñosa. Five stones still mark the bounds which divided its territory from that of Legio IV.
It had its port, named Portus Victoriae Juliobrigensium, at
Santonna. (
Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4,
4.20. s. 34;
Ptol. 2.6.51; Inscr. ap. Gruter, p. 354; Morales,
Antig. p. 68; Florez,
Esp. S. vol. vi. p. 417;
Cantabr. p. 64; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 443.)
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