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Orrea

Ορρέα

Orrea

1.

(Ορρέα, Ptol. 2.3.14), a town of the Venicones, on the E. coast of Britannia Barbara. Horsley (Brit. Rom. p. 373) identifies it with Orrock, on the little river Orewater in Fifeshire.

2.

A town in Moesia Superior (Ptol. 3.9.5). [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.