Balsa
Βάλσα
Balsa (Βάλσα: Eth. Balsenses, Tavira), a considerable town of Lusitania in Spain, on the S. coast. It was the first station W. of the Anas, after Esuris at the river's mouth, at the distance of 24 M. P. (It. Ant. p. 426.) It belonged to the Lusitani (Plin. Nat. 4.21. s. 35), or to the Turduli. (Ptol. 2.5.2.) Pliny enumerates its people among the stipendiarii; its coins show that it was a municipium, with the epithet of Felix. (Plin., It. Ant., Ptol. ll. cc.; Mela, 3.1; Marc. Herac]. p. 42; Geog. Ray. 4.43; Sestini, Med. p. 3; Mionnet, Suppl. vol. i. p. 3; Resendi, Antiq. Lusit. iv. p. 197; Florez, Esp. S. vol. xiv. pp. 201, 209; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 388.)
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.