Contrebia

• a fortified town in Hispania Tarraconensis, in the province of the Carpetani, Liv. 40, 33, 1 sq.; Flor. 2, 17, 10; Val. Max. 2, 7, 10; 7, 4, 5.—Contrĕ-bĭenses, ium, m., its inhabitants, Liv. Epit. 91.

CONTRE´BIA (Contrebienses).

One of the chief cities, and, according to Valerius Maximus, the capital of Celtiberia. It is conspicuous in the history of the Celtiberian War; and in the Sertorian War, it was the scene of one of those obstinate defences which so often occur in Spanish history, its reduction costing Sertorius forty-four days and many lives. Its site appears to have been near Albarracin, SE. of Caesaraugusta. (Liv. 11.33; Val. Max., 7.4.5; Flor. 2.7; Yell. Paterc. 2.5; Liv. Fr. xci.; Geogr. Rav. 4.43; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. pp. 461, 462.)

CONTREBIA LEUCAS, in the territory of the Berones, is a different place. [BERONES[P.S]

One of the chief towns of the Celtiberi, in Hispania Tarraconensis, southeast of Saragossa.