Variana
Βαριάνα
Variana (Βαριάνα), a town in Lower Moesia on the Danube, was the garrison of a portion of the fifth legion and of a squadron of horse. (It. Ant. p. 220; Procop. de Aed. 4.6; Notit. Imp., where it is called Variniana and Varina.) Its site is marked by the town of Orcaja or Orcava.
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.