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DEVELTUS

DEVELTUS, DEVELTON, DIBALTUM, DEBELLION (Δεούελτος), a town in the east of Thrace, to the west of Apollonia (Ptol. 3.11.11; Hiercl. p. 635; Theophan. p. 422; Plin. Nat. 4.18; Amm. Marc. 31.8, who calls it Debelcum; Geogr. Rav. 4.6). According to Zonaras (ii. p. 155), the place afterwards received the name Zagora, which it still bears.

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    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 4.18
    • Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, 31.8
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 3.11
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