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Hossii

Ὅσσιοι

Eth. Hossii, OSSI (Eth. Ὅσσιοι, Ptol. 3.5.22), a people of Sarmatia Europaea, who occupied the E. coasts of the Baltic--Esthonia and the island of Oesel, and belonged to the Finnish stock. (Schafarik. Slav. Alt. vol. i. pp. 298, 302.)

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.