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Basante

Basante a town in Lower Pannonia, called ad Basante in Peutinger. Table, whereas in several Itineraries (Ant. p. 131, Hier. p. 563) and by Ptolemy (2.16.8) it is called Bassiana (Βασσίανα.) Ruins of the place are still existing near the village of Dobrincze.

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.