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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] [p. 2.1327]

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