Amisia
Ἀμάσιος
Amisia or AMISIUS (Ἀμάσιος or Ἀμασία, the Ems), a river in northern Germany, rising in the hills of the Weser, and emptying itself into the German Ocean near the town of Emden. The river was well known to, and navigated by the Romans. In B.C. 12, Drusus fought on it a naval battle against the Bructeri. (Mela, 3.3; Plin. Nat. 4.14, who calls the river Amisius; Tac. Ann. 1.60, 63, 70, 2.23, who calls it Amisia; Strab. p. 290; Ptolem. 2.11; comp. Ledebur, Land u. Vold der Bructerer, p. 180.)
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.