Silla
Σίλλα
Silla (Σίλλα, Isid. Charax, § 2, ed. Mùller, 1855), a river of Apolloniatis, a district of Assyria, which, according to Isidorus, flows through the centre of the town of Artemita. [ARTEMITA] There can be little doubt that this is the river now called the Diyaleh. It is also, in all probability, the same as that called by Steph. B. sub voce (s. v. Ἀπάμεια) the Delas. Forbiger imagines that the Diabus of Ammianus (23.6), the Durus of Zosimus (3.25), and the Gorgos of Ptolemy (4.1.7), refer to the same river. It is, however, more likely that the first of these streams is the same as that elsewhere called the Zabatus.
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.