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Urgao

Urgao a town in Hispania Baetica, on the road from Corduba to Castulo (Itin. Ant. p. 403), with the surname of Alba. (Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3.) In the editions of the Itinerary it is called Urcao and Vircao; and according to inscriptions in Gruter (ccxlix. 3, ccxliii. 6), it was a municipium, with the name of Albense Urgavonense. Most probably Arjona. (Cf. Morales, Ant. p. 74; Florez, Esp. Sagr. xii. p. 379.) [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.