SABATA
SABATA or SABDATA (Plin. Nat. 6.27. s. 31), a town of Assyria, probably the same place as the Σαβαθά of Zosimus (3.23), which that writer describes as 30 stadia from the ancient Seleuceia. It is also mentioned by Abulfeda (p. 253) under the name of Sabach.