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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