URGAO
URGAO a town in Hispania Baetica, on the road from Corduba to Castulo (
Itin. Ant. p. 403), with the surname of Alba. (
Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3.)
In the editions of the Itinerary it is called Urcao and Vircao; and according to inscriptions in Gruter (ccxlix. 3, ccxliii. 6), it was a municipium, with the name of Albense Urgavonense. Most probably
Arjona. (Cf. Morales,
Ant. p. 74; Florez,
Esp. Sagr. xii. p. 379.) [
T.H.D]
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