Ibiones

IBIONES

IBIO´NES, VIBIO´NES (Ἰβιώνες, al.Οὐιβιώνες, Ptol. 3.5.23), a Slavonian people of Sarmatia Europaea, whom Schafarik (Slav. Alt. vol. 1. p. 213) looks for in the neighbourhood of a river Iva-Iviza-Ivinka, of which there are several in Russia deriving their name from iwa= = Salix Alba,o r the common white willow.

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