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Arsa

Ἄρσα

Arsa (Ἄρσα: Eth. Ἀρσαῖος: Azuaga), a city of the Turduli, in the district of Baeturia in Hispania Baetica, belonging to the conventus of Corduba. It lay in the Sierra Morena (M. Marianus), and is mentioned in the war with Viriathus. (Appian. Hisp. 70; Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3; Ptol. 2.4.14; Steph. B. sub voce Its site is identified by ruins with inscriptions. (Florez, ix. p. 20.)

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.