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Nertobriga

Νερτόβριγα

Nertobriga (Νερτόβριγα).

1.

A town of Hispania Baetica (Ptol. 2.4.13), also called by Pliny (3.1. s. 3) Concordia Julia, the modern Valera la vieja. It is named Ἐρκόβρικα in the copies of Polybius (35.2), by an omission of the N. (Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 381.)

2.

A town of the Celtiberi in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road from Emerita to Caesaraugusta. It is called by Appian Νεργόβριγα (Hisp. 50), and by Suidas Νεργόβριγες: now Almunia. (Ptol. 2.6.58; Florus, 2.17; Ant. Itin. 437; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 460.) [T.H.D]

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.