Ebisus

Ebisus is a historical toponym sometimes used as a variant spelling of Ebusus, the ancient Phoenician settlement on the western Mediterranean island of Ibiza. The form appears in a minority of late manuscripts and Latin transcriptions, reflecting the variable transliteration of Phoenician names into Greek and Latin.

In classical and late antique sources the island is more commonly named Ebusus (or Ebusos), with Ebisus representing a rare orthographic variant. The name is tied to the same locality on the island now known as Ibiza, part of the Balearic Islands.

Geographically, the site lies on Ibiza in the western Mediterranean. In antiquity it functioned as a Phoenician trading post and subsequently fell under Carthaginian and later Roman influence, forming part of the network of maritime commerce across the western Mediterranean. Archaeological remains attest to Phoenician presence and later urban development, though precise dates and local history vary among sources.

Today the island is called Ibiza, with the Catalan name Eivissa used locally. The form Ebisus is largely of interest to philologists and historians studying ancient toponyms and is rarely used in modern cartography or general reference works.