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Gerunda

Γεροῦνδα

Gerunda (Γεροῦνδα, Ptol. 2.6.70: Eth. Gerundenses, Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4), a small inland town of the Ausetani, in the NE. corner of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the S. side of the river Alba (Ter), and on the high road from Tarraco to Narbo Martius. Under the Romans it was a civitas Latinorum, belonging to the conventus of Tarraco. It stood on a hill near Gerona. (Plin., Ptol., ll. cc.; Itin. Ant. p. 390; Tab. Peut.; Geog. Rav. 4.42; Prudent. Peisteph. 4.29, where it is called parva; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 426.)

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.