Burchana
Βουρχανίς
Burchana (Βουρχανίς: Borcum), called Fabaria, from a kind of wild beans growing there, was an island at the mouth of the Amasia (Ems), which was discovered and conquered by Drusus. (Strab. 7.291; Plin. Nat. 4.27.)
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.