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Dimallum

Δίμαλος

Dimallum (Δίμαλος, Διμάλη, Διμάλλη, Plb. 3.18, 7.9), an important fortress in Illyricum, taken by the Romans under L. Aemilius Paulus, in their war with Demetrius of Pharos; and which seems to have been in the neighbourhood of the Parthini, if not included within their territory. (Liv. 29.12; Polyb. l.c.)

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.