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Regia

Ῥηγία

Regia (Ῥηγία, Ptol. 2.2.10).

1.

A place in the interior of Hibernia, no doubt so named by the Romans from its being a royal residence, the proper name of which was unknown to them. It was perhaps seated on the river Culmore, in the neighbourhood of Omagh.

2.

(Ἑτέρα Ρηγία, Ptol. l.c.), another place of the same description, conjectured to have been on the river Dur.

3.

Regia Carissa. [CARISA] [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.