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ARUCI

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in Ancient Geography, a town of the Celtici, in the north of Lusitania, (Antonine Inscription), called also Aruci Novum, to distinguish it from the following: Now supposed to be Moura, a small city of Portugal, near the confluence of the Ardila and Guadalquivir.

Arucet Vetus, in Ancient Geography, a small city of the Tordetani, in Bretica, (Ptolemy); now Arcos, a hamlet of Andalusia, on the confines of Portugal and Estremadura, on the river Gama, seven leagues to the east of Aruci Novum or Moura. From it a mountain, in its neighbourhood, takes the name Arucetanus. Now la Sierra de Arcos.