Topic summary
Cibalae
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Vinkovci.
Name
It was called Cibalae in antiquity. There is no known Latin or Greek etymology for Cibalae, so it is assumed to be inherited from an earlier time. Cibale is a toponym derived from geomorphology, from Indo-European *keball- meaning "ascension" or "head". It is assumed that the root is in Proto-Indo-European*ghebhel (head), in the sense of a hill, meaning a place that was protected from the flooding of Bosut.