Tauresium
Ταυρήσιον
Tauresium (Ταυρήσιον, Procop. de Aed. 4.1. p. 266), a place in Moesia Superior, near Scupi or Justiniana Prima. It was situated in. the Haemus, not far from the borders, and was the birthplace of the emperor Justinian. (Cf. Gibbon, vol. v. p. 79, ed. Smith.)
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.