Besippo
Βαισίππω
Besippo or BAESIPPO (Βαισίππω), a city of the Turdetani, on or near the S. coast of Hispania Baetica, just outside the Straits, E. of the Pr. Junonis (C. Trafalgar), and 12 M. P. W. of Belo. (Itin. Ant. p. 408; Mela, 2.6; Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3; Ptol. ii. 4.14; Geog. Rav. 4.43.) Some identify it with Bejer de la Frontera; but others argue that that place lies too far inland to agree with Pliny's statement that Besippo was a seaport, and take the Roman ruins near Porto Barbato for its site. (Ukert, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 343.)
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.