Lopsi

Lopsi is the name of a LiburnianWilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, {{ISBN|0-631-19807-5}}, page 95The Cambridge Ancient History by Alan K. Bowman, {{ISBN|0521264308}}, page 575 tribe inhabiting the mountains along the eastern coast of the Adriatic before and during the Roman Empire, specifically present-day Velebit.{{cite book |authorlink=Pliny the Elder |title=Naturalis Historia}}

The tribe was mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia,{{cite web |url=http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/pliny.nh3.html |title=PLINII NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER III |accessdate=2008-07-16 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D25 |title=Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, BOOK III. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED., CHAP. 25. (21.)—LIBURNIA AND ILLYRICUM. |accessdate=2017-11-09 }} and it borrowed its name to one of the Roman cities on the coast, Lopsica (present day Sveti Juraj in Croatia). The name has survived to present day as a place name, as well as the family surname Lopac.

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