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(Ὄρσων/Órsōn). Iberian city in Hispania Baetica in the valley of the lower Baetis (Diod. Sic. 33,21,1; Bell. Hisp. 26; 28; 41 f.: Ursao; Str. 3,2,2: Οὔρσων/Oú rsōn; Plin. HN 3,12; App. Ib. 274; Ptol. 2,4,14: Οὐρβόνη/Ou rbónē), modern Osuna to the east of Hispalis (Sevilla). The settlement, which was probably already significant in the 3rd cent. BC, was one of the centres of resistance to Rome in the battle of the Lusitani under Viriatus in 139 BC (Diod. Sic. 33,21,1 ff.; App. …