Bactaialla
Βακταϊαλλά
Bactaialla (Βακταϊαλλά, Ptol. 5.15, Bactaiali, Peut. Tab.), a town of Syria. According to the Peutinger Tables, 27 M. P. from Antioch. The plain of Bectileth (Βαικτιλαέθ, Judith 2.21), which the Assyrian army reached in three days' journey from Nineveh, has been connected with this place. (Mannert, Geog. vi. pt. 1. p. 456; Winer, Bib. Real. Wort. s. v.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.