FLAVIOBRI´GA(Φλαουιόβριγαprob. Portugalete), a sea-port town on the N. coast of Hispania Terraconensis, and on the W. side of the estuary of the Nerva ( Nervion). From the notice of it in Pliny, we may infer that it received its name, and its rank as a colony, under Vespasian or Titus; having formerly been called Amanum portus. (Plin. Nat. 4.20. s. 34.) Pliny assigns it to the Varduli, but Ptolemy to the Autrigones. (Florez, Esp. S. 24. p. 10; Mariana, Hist. Hisp. 4.4.)
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