Ebura
Ἐβοῦρα
Ebura or EBORA.
1.
(Ἐβοῦρα, Ἐβόρα, S. Lucar de Barrameda), a city and fortress of the Turduli, in Hispania Baetica, at the mouth of the river Baetis (Guadalquivir), on its left bank. (Strab. iii. p.140; Mela, 3.1, Castellum Ebora in litore; Ptol. 2.4.11; Itin. Ant. p. 426; Steph. B. sub voce Inscr. ap. Gruter, p. 489.)
2.
EBURA CEREALIS, an inland city of Hispania Baetica, probably in the neighbourhood of Santa Cruz. (Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3; Inscr. ap. Muratori, p. 461; Florez, Esp. S. vol. xii. p. 390; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 370.)
3.
(Ἐβόρα), an inland city of the Edetani, in Hispania Tarraconensis, SE. of Caesaraugusta, only mentioned by Ptolemy (2.6.63). (Brietius, Tab. Parall. vol. i. p. 268; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 417.)
4.
Mela (3.1) mentions an Ebora as a port of the Celtici, at the NW. extremity of the peninsula, which Ukert takes to be Barre on the Tambre. (Ukert, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 438.) [P.S]
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.