Urgao

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

URGAO a town in Hispania Baetica, on the road from Corduba to Castulo ( Itin. Ant. p. 403), with the surname of Alba. (Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3.) In the editions of the Itinerary it is called Urcao and Vircao; and according to inscriptions in Gruter (ccxlix. 3, ccxliii. 6), it was a municipium, with the name of Albense Urgavonense. Most probably Arjona. (Cf. Morales, Ant. p. 74; Florez, Esp. Sagr. 12. p. 379.) [T.H.D]