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Iatra

Ἰατρόν

Iatra or IATRUM (Ἰατρόν), a town in Moesia, situated at the point where the river Iatrus or Iantrus empties itself into the Danube, a few miles to the east of Ad Novas. (Procop. de Aed. 4.7; Theophylact. 7.2; Notit. Imp. 29, where it is erroneously called Latra; Geogr. Ray.. 4.7, where, as in the Peut. Tab. it bears the name Laton.)

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.