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Buthoe

Βυθόη

Buthoe or BUTUA (Βυθόη, Steph. B. sub voce Scylax, p. 9; Butua, Plin. Nat. 3.23. s. 26; Βουλούα, an error for Βουτούα, Ptol. 2.16.5: Eth. Βουθοαῖος: Budoa), a town of Dalmatia in Illyricum, said to have been founded by Cadmus, after he had migrated from Thebes and taken up his residence among the Illyrian tribe of the Enchelees.

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.