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Cauca

Καῦκα

Cauca (Καῦκα: Eth. Καυκαῖοι, Eth. Caucenses: Coca), a city at the extreme E. of the territory of the Vaccaei, in Hispania Tarraconensis; belonging to the conventus of Clunia; and lying on the great road from Emerita to Caesaraugusta, 22 M. P. from Nivaria and 29 M. P. from Segovia. (Appian. Hisp. 51, 89; Itin. Ant. p. 435; Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4; Ptol. 2.6.50; Zosim. 4.24; Geog. Rav. 4.44; Mariana, Hist. Hisp. 3.2; Florez, Esp. S. 5.14; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1, p. 432.)

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.