Urium
URIUM(Οὔριον, Ptol. 2.4.12).
1.A town in Hispania Baetica, on the borders of Lusitania; according to Reichard, now Torre del Oro.
2.A river in Hispania Baetica, between the Baetis and the Anas, which entered the sea near the town just named. (Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3.) Now the Tinto. [T.H.D]
A small town in Apulia, from which the Sinus Urius took its name, being the bay on the northern side of Mount Garganus opposite the Diomedean Islands.
An ancient city on the N coast of the Gargano promontory. It is mentioned by Pliny (3.103) and Ptolemy (3.1.17) among the cities of Daunia. Its position as a maritime city at the entrance to the Adriatic Sea is affirmed by other literary sources (Dionys. Per. 380; Strab. 6.284), but there is no historical mention of the city. Coins with the inscription ΥΡΙΑΤΙΝΩΝare attributed to Uria. Ruins of a Roman bath found near Carpino on Lago di Varano are believed to have been within the area of the ancient city.
BIBLIOGRAPHYW. Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, I (1856) 1107 (E. H. Bunbury); CIL, IX, p. 66; RE 9.1 (1961) 1030.
F. G. LO PORTO