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Headword: Ἄβιννα
Adler number: alpha,46
Translated headword: Abinna, Abila
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a city.
Greek Original:
Ἄβιννα: ὄνομα πόλεως.
Notes:
Claudius Ptolemy 6.3.5 lists a city Abinna in what would be present-day Iran.
Note also Abinna as the name of a headland, in 'Libya', according to Philostratus (Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5.1) -- which is in fact Mt. Abila in Mauretania, the African side of the "Pillars of Heracles"; present-day Spanish-owned Monte Acho (Barrington Atlas map 28 grid D2).
Reference:
RE 1.99
Keywords: definition; geography
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 26 August 1998@18:58:33.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Added headword, set status) on 28 January 2001@20:43:41.
David Whitehead (added note) on 23 April 2002@07:52:49.
Nicholas Fincher (Added note. Should I add Abina as an alternative headword?) on 23 July 2003@01:39:22.
David Whitehead (augmented headword and keywords) on 23 July 2003@03:30:01.
David Whitehead (augmented headword and note) on 7 August 2003@11:41:16.
David Whitehead (reworked notes) on 19 July 2011@08:12:53.
David Whitehead on 1 August 2011@07:37:42.
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