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Obucula

Ὀβούκολα

Obucula (Ὀβούκολα, Ptol. 2.4.4), called by Pliny (iii. l.s. 3) Obulcula, and by Appian (App. Hisp. 68) Ὀβόλκολα, a town of Hispania Baetica, on the road from Hispalis to Emerita and Corduba (Itin. Ant. pp. 413, 414), now Monclova. Some ruins are still visible (Caro, Ant. Hisp. 1.19; Florez, Esp. S. xii. p. 382.)

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.