DERIS
DERIS or
DERRHIS (
Δέρις,
Strab. xvii. p.799;
Δέρρις,
Ptol. 4.5.7;
Δέρρον or
Δέρρα, Stadiasm. p. 436), a promontory on the coast of Marmarica in N. Africa, between the harbours of Leucaspis and Phoenicus, named from a black rock in the shape of a hide. Pacho takes it for the headland now called
El Heyf. (
Voyage dans la Marmarique, &c. p. 18.)
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