Emporia
τὰ Ἐμπορεῖα
Emporia (τὰ Ἐμπορεῖα),was at first the name of a number of seaport towns, Phoenician and Carthaginian settlements, on the shores of the Lesser Syrtis; afterwards of the district in which those towns lay. (Plb. 1.82.6, 3.23.2, Exc. Leg. 18; Appian, App. Pun. 72; Liv. 29.25, 34.62: see further AFRICA p. 68b., and BYZACIUM)
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.