Dabanas
Δαβανάς
Dabanas (Δαβανάς), one of Justinian's fortresses, situated between Dara and Amida (Procop. de Aed. 2.4), which some of the maps confound with DARANA (Amm. Marc. 23.3.7), which lies much further S. at the sources of the river BELIAS The site has not been identified. (Ritter, Erdkunde, vol. x. p. 1124, vol. xi. pp. 82, 381.)
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.