Lance
Lance (Itin. Ant. p. 395), or LANCIA (Λαγκία, D. C. 53.25, 29; Flor. 4.12; Oros. 6.21), or LANCIATUM (Λαγκίατον, Ptol. 2.6.29), the chief city of the LANCEATI (Λαγκίατοι, Ptol. l.c.) or LANCIENSES (Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4), a tribe of the Astures, in Hispania Tarraconensis. It was strongly fortified, and was the most important city of that region, even more so than LEGIO VII. GEMINA, at least before the settlement of the latter by the Romans, by whom Lancia was destroyed, though it was again restored. It lay on the high road from Caesaraugusta to Legio VII. (Leon), only 9 M. P. from the latter, where its name is still to be traced in that of Sollanco or Sollancia. (Florez, Esp. S. vol. xvi. p. 16; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 441.)
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.