yviça

Updated: May 22, 2025

An extant medal seems to have been struck in honour of his Proconsulship. Num. It was one of the great merits of Cn. Pompeius Magnus that he cleared the seas of these scoundrels. The Greeks and Romans called Yviça, Ebusus. Gadeira, which the Romans called Gades, was an old Phœnician town, on the island of Leon, where Cadiz now stands.

Plutarch - Plutarch's Lives Volume III.

Tripoli was confirmed in her voluntary allegiance; Sardinia and Corsica surrendered to an officer, who carried, instead of a sword, the head of the valiant Zano; and the Isles of Majorca, Minorca, and Yvica consented to remain an humble appendage of the African kingdom.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

Hence, onwards, the sail was extremely pleasant, being within sight of the Spanish coast, and the Islands of Yvica, Majorca, and Minorca, successively, until we reached the Gulf of Lyons. When the northerly wind blows, which, in Provence, is termed the mistral, the waves roll against the coast of Provence, and the recoil produces that ugly chopping sea for which this gulf is renowned.

S. A. (Simon Ansley) Ferrall - A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America