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Suel

Σοῦελ

Suel (Σοῦελ, Ptol. 2.4 § 7), a town of Hispania Baetica, on the road from Malaca to Gades. (Itin. Ant, p. 405.) According to inscriptions it was a Roman municipium in which libertini had been settled. (Reines. pp. 13, 131; Spon, Miscell. v. p. 189; Orelli, Inscr. no. 3914; Mela, 2.6; Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3.) It is the modern Fuengirola. (Inscr. in Aldrete, Orig. Ling. Cast. 1.2.)

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.