Vabar
Vabar a river of Mauretania Caesariensis, which fell into the sea a little to the W. of Saldae. Ptolemy (4.2.9) mentions it under the name of Οὔαβαρ as if it had been a town; and Maffei (Mus. Ver. p. 463) thought that he had discovered such a place in the name of Bavares, in an African inscription (cf. Orelli, Inscr. no. 529). In Pliny (5.2. s. 1) and Mela (1.6) the name is erroneously written Nabar. It is probably the present Buberak.
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.