SCIRTIA´NA a station on the Egnatian road, between Brucida ( Presba) and Castra or Parembole. The name is no doubt connected with that of the SCIRTONES(Σκίρτονες), whom Ptolemy (Ptol. 3.17.8couples with the Dassaretian Pirustae as Illyrian tribes near Macedonia.
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