Desudaba
Desudaba a place in Maedica of Macedonia, 75 M. P. from Almana, on the Axius, where the mercenaries of the Gauls who had been summoned by Perseus in the memorable campaign of B.C. 168, took up their position. (Liv. 44.26.) Leake (Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 472) has placed it at or near Kumánovo, on one of the confluents of the Upper Axius.
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.