Baltia

Baltia, Basilia or Abalus is a mythic island in northern Europe mentioned in Greco-Roman geography in the connection of amber.

It presumably corresponds to a territory near either the Baltic Sea or the North Sea, perhaps the coast of Prussia, the island of Gotland, Sweden, or of the Jutland Peninsula.

Sources

Pliny the Elder (HN. 4.95; 37.35-36)

Diodorus Siculus (v. 23):

See also

• Amber Coast
• Amber Road
• Baltic (name)
• Baltica

References