Salaria
SALA´RIA
1.(Σαλάρια,Ptol. 2.6.61), a town of the Bastitani, in the SE. part of Hispania Tarraconensis. According to Pliny it was a Roman colony. (Colonia Salariensis, 3.3. s. 4.) Ukert (ii. pt. 1. p. 407) identifies it with Sabiote, between Ubeda and Baeza.
2.A town of the Oretani, in the same neighbourhood. (Ptol. 2.6.59.) [T.H.D]
A town of the Bastetani, in Hispania Tarraconensis, and a Roman colony.
An Augustan colony identified with the Ubeda la Vieja ruins in the municipality of Baeza 30 km SE of Linares. The site has not been excavated but Roman graves and fragments of reliefs, now in the Madrid and Jaén museums, have been found here.
BIBLIOGRAPHYJ. Gongora, Memoria fijando definitivamente el sitio de la colonia Salaria (1867); A. García y Bellido, Esculturas romanas de España y Portugal I (1949) 309; id., “Las colonias romanas de Hispania,” Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español 29 (1959) 498-99.
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