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Abrotonum

Ἀβρότονον

Abrotonum (Ἀβρότονον), a Phoenician city on the coast of N. Africa, in the district of Tripolitana, between the Syrtes, usually identified with SABRATA though Pliny makes them different places. (Scylax, p. 47; Strab. p. 835; Steph. B. sub voce Plin. Nat. 5.4.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.