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Tzurulum

Τζουρουλόν

Tzurulum (Τζουρουλόν, Procop. B. Goth. 3.38; Anna Comn. vii. p. 215, x. p. 279; Theophyl. 6.5; in Geog. Rav. 4.6, and Tab. Peut., Suralluhm and Syrallum; in It. Ant. pp. 138, 230, Izirallum, but in p. 323, Tirallum; and in It. Hier. p. 569, Tunorullum), a strong town on a hill in the SE. of Thrace, not far from Perinthus, on the road from that city to Hadrianopolis. It has retained its name with little change to the present day, being the modern Tchorlu or Tchurlu.

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.