Subur
Σούβουρ
Subur (Σούβουρ, Ptol. 4.1.13).
1.
A town in the interior of Mauretania Tingitana, near the river of the same name.
2.
(Ptol. 4.1.2), a river of Mauretania Tingitana. Pliny (5.1. s. 1) calls it a fine navigable river. It fell into the Atlantic near Colonia Banasa, 50 miles S. of Lixus. It is still called Subu or Cubu, and rises among the forests of Mount Salelo in the province of Sciaus (Graberg of Hemsö, Das Kaiserreich Marokko, tr. by Reumont, p. 12). [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.