Batrasabbes

BATRASABBES

BATRASABBES (or Batrasaves), a town of the Omani (now Omàn) in Arabia, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, and near to Cape Mussendom (Plin. Nat. 6.28. s. 32), identical in situation with the Black Mountains and Cape of Asabi, and still marked by a town and district named Sabee, close to C. Mussendom. (Forster, Arabia, vol. 2. p. 225.)

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