List of ancient place names and geographical names / Ab
| Latin name |
Greek name |
description | today | Sources and References | location
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abacaenum | Ἀβάκαινον (Abakainon), Ἀβάκαινα (Abakaina) | City in Sicily | RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Abae | Ἄβαι (Abai) | City in the northeast of the Phocis countryside | at Exarchos , 10 km southwest of Atalanti in Greece | PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Abaesamis | City in Arabia | RE ; | |||
| Abai | City in Arabia | RE ; | |||
| Aballaba , Aballava | Roman fortress on Hadrian's Wall | Burgh by Sands | Notitia Dignitatum 40.47; RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Aballo | Place in Gaul | Avallon in the Yonne department in France | PECS ; | ||
| Abalus , basilia | Island in the northern ocean | possibly Heligoland | Plin. Nat. 37, 7; Diod. 5, 23; RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Abantes | Ἄβαντες (Abantes) | ancient Greek tribe on the Evia peninsula | RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Abantia | Smith ; | ||||
| Abaris , Avaris, Auaris | Αὔαρις (Auaris) | ancient Egyptian city in the Eastern Nile Delta | Tell el-Dab'a | Joseph. c. Apion. 1, 14; Smith ; | |
| Abas | Ἄβας (Abas) | Mountain on the island of Erytheia | RE ; | ||
| Abas | Ἄβας (Abas) | River in the western part of Albania | possibly the Alazani | Plut. Pomp. 35, Dio Cassius 37, 3; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Abasci | RE ; Smith ; | ||||
| Abascus | RE ; Smith ; | ||||
| Abatos | Island in the first cataract of the Nile in Egypt | Bigeh | Senec. QN 4, 2; Lukan 10, 323; RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Abbassus | RE ; Smith ; | ||||
| Abdera | Ἄβδηρα (Abdēra) | Greek city in southern Thrace | PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Abella | Ἀβέλλα (Abella) | City in Campania | RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Abellinum | Ἀβέλλινον (Abellinon) | City on the border of Samnium and Campania | RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Abia | Ἀβία (Abia) | Coastal city in Eastern Messenia | Palaiochora, 6 km south of Kalamata | Plin. nat. 4, 22; Ptol. 3, 14, 31; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Abianus | Ἀβιανός (Abianos) | River in Scythia | Diophantos with Steph. Byz .; RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Abii | Ἄβιοι (Abioi) | RE ; Smith ; | |||
| Abila , Seleucia Abila | Ἄβιλα (Abila) | City in Palestine | Quwailiba in Jordan, 13.5 kilometers north of Irbid | PECS ; RE ; | |
| Abila Lysaniae | Ἄβιλα ἡ Λυσανίου (Abila hē Lysaniou) | City in Koile Syria on the Barada River | Suk Wadi Barada, 20 km northwest of Damascus | RE ; Smith ; | |
| Abila Mons | Ἀβίλη στήλη (Abilē stēlē) | Mountain at the opening of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic, sometimes referred to as the southern part of the Pillars of Hercules called | Monte Hacho above Ceuta on the north coast of Africa | RE ; Smith ; | |
| Abilene | Ἀβιληνή (Abilēnē), Ἄβιλα (Abila) | District in Coelesyria , around Abila Lysaniou | RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Abissa | City of the Sakhalites on the south coast of Arabia Felix | possibly Mirbat in southwest Oman | RE ; | ||
| Abitina | City in Africa proconsularis | Place in Tunisia | RE ; | ||
| Abnoba mons , Marciana Silva | Αὔνοβα (Aunoba) | Black Forest , maybe including the Odenwald and Rothaargebirge in the north | Ptol. 2, 111, 7; Tac. Germ. 1; Firmly. Avien. Descript. Orb. 437; Plin. Nat. hist 4, 12; Martian. Capell. 6, 662; RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Aboccis | RE ; Smith ; | ||||
| Abodiacum | Ἀβουδίακον (Aboudiakon) | Roman military settlement on the banks of the Lech | Epfach | Tab. Peut .; Ptol. 2, 13, 5; PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Abolla | RE ; Smith ; | ||||
| Abonae | Roman military settlement northwest of Aquae Sulis in Britain | Sea Mills , suburb of Bristol in England | PECS ; | ||
| Abonuteichos , Ionopolis | Άβώνου τειχος (Abōnou teichos) | Coastal city in Paphlagonia | İnebolu in Turkey | PECS ; | |
| Aboriginal | Ἀβοριγῖνες (Aborigines) | earliest inhabitants of Lazio | RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Aborrhas | RE ; Smith ; | ||||
| Abrauannus | RE ; Smith ; | ||||
| Abrettene | RE ; Smith ; | ||||
| Abrincatui | Gallic tribe | the Avranchin in Normandy , on the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel | RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Abrittus , Abritus, Abrittos | Roman fort and civil settlement or early Byzantine city in the province of Moesia | near Rasgrad in Bulgaria | PECS ; | ||
| Abrotonum | Ἀβρότονον (Abrotonon) | Phoenician city in Tripolitania | Sabrata | RE ; Smith ; | |
| Absyrtides | Archipelago on the Liburnian coast | RE ; Smith ; | |||
| Abthugni | City in Africa | near Suwar in Tunisia | |||
| Abus | ὁ Ἄβος (ho subscriptions) | Mountain in Armenia | Smith ; | ||
| Abus | River in Britain | RE ; | |||
| Abusina | Cohort fort on the Rhaetian Limes | Eining Castle | PECS ; RE ; | ||
| Abydus | Ἄβυδος (Abydos) | City on the Hellespont in Mysia | Nara Burnu near Çanakkale in Turkey | PECS ; RE ; Smith (1) ; | |
| Abydus | Ἄβυδος (Abydos) | City in Upper Egypt | RE ; Smith (2) ; |