Pisoraca

PISORACA

PISORACA according to an inscription (Florez, Esp. Sagr. 5. p. 37), a southern affluent of the river Durius in Hispania Tarraconensis, now the Pisuerga. (Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 290.)

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PISORACA (Herrera de Pisuerga) Palencia, Spain.

Town 76 km N-NE of Palencia, known because of several milestones. Ptolemy called it Sisaraka (2.6.51), and the Ravenna Cosmographer Pistoraca (318.13). Excavations have proved that in or near it was the camp of Legio 1111 Macedonia, and that it survived until the 6th-7th c.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. García y Bellido, “Herrera de Pisuerga,” Excavaciones Arqueológicas en España 2 (1960) I; id. et al., Excavaciones y exploraciones arqueológicas en Cantabria (1970) I.

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