Scirtiana
Scirtiana a station on the Egnatian road, between Brucida (Presba) and Castra or Parembole. The name is no doubt connected with that of the SCIRTONES (Σκίρτονες), whom Ptolemy (3.17.8 couples with the Dassaretian Pirustae as Illyrian tribes near Macedonia.
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.