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Batrasabbes

Batrasabbes (or Batrasaves), a town of the Omani (now Omàn) in Arabia, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, and near to Cape Mussendom (Plin. Nat. 6.28. s. 32), identical in situation with the Black Mountains and Cape of Asabi, and still marked by a town and district named Sabee, close to C. Mussendom. (Forster, Arabia, vol. ii. p. 225.)

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.