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Cornabii

Eth. Cornabii or CORNAVII.

1.

In North Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as lying in the extreme north-east of Scotland; consequently in the present county of Caithness.

2.

In North Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as lying east of the Ordovices. (North Wales), with Deuna for their town. This gives parts of Stafford, Chester, and Shropshire, as their area. [See DEUNA.] [R.G.L]

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.