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Zaba

Ζάβα

Zaba (Ζάβα), a small place on the northern coast of Taprobane or Ceylon, noticed by Ptolemy (7.4.13). It has not been identified with any modern site.

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.