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Derae

Δέραι

Derae (Δέραι), a place in Messenia, where a battle was fought between the Messenians and Lacedaemonians in the second Messenian War. (Paus. 4.15.4.)

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.