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Abbassus or Ambasum (Latin: Abbassus^[1]; Ἄμβασον^[2]), was an ancient town of Phrygia, on the frontiers of the Tolistoboii, in Galatia.^[3] It is, perhaps, the same as the Alamassus reported by of Hierocles,^[4] and the Amadasse whose bishops attended early church councils. The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World note that its probable location is near Synnada^[5], however its precise location is not known.

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1856).

1. ^ Livy xxxviii. 15.
2. ^ Steph. B. s. v.
3. ^ Liv. xxxviii. 15.
4. ^ Hierocles, p. 678
5. ^ Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 62 & p. 966.

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