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.
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.