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ASTA

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an inland town of Liguria, a colony (Ptolemy) on the river Tanarus: Now Affi. E. Long. 8. 15. Lat. 44. 40.

Asta Regia, a town of Baetica, (Pliny); situated at that mouth of the Batis which was choked up with mud, to the north of Cadiz; 16 miles distant from the port of Cadiz, (Antonine). Its ruins show its former greatness. Its name is Phoenician, denoting a frith or arm of the sea, on which it flood. It is said to be the same with Xera; which see.