Desudaba (''Desudava''?) was a
Thracian town in the tribal district of
Maedica
The Maedi (also ''Maidans'', ''Maedans'', or ''Medi''; grc, Μαῖδοι or Μαιδοί) were a Thracian tribe in antiquity. In historic times, they occupied the area between Paionia and Thrace, on the southwestern fringes of Thrace, along th ...
, in
ancient Macedonia
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. It was located 75
M.P.
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from Almana, on the
Axius, where the mercenaries of the
Gauls who had been summoned by
Perseus of Macedon in the campaign of 168 BCE, took up their position. Writing the 19th century,
William Martin Leake
William Martin Leake (14 January 17776 January 1860) was an English military man, topographer, diplomat, antiquarian, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He served in the British military, spending much of his career in the
Mediterrane ...
placed it at or near
Kumanovo, on one of the confluents of the Upper Axius.
William Martin Leake
William Martin Leake (14 January 17776 January 1860) was an English military man, topographer, diplomat, antiquarian, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He served in the British military, spending much of his career in the
Mediterrane ...
, ''Northern Greece'', vol. iii. p. 472.
See also
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Dacian davae
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List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia
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Dacia
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Roman Dacia
Roman Dacia ( ; also known as Dacia Traiana, ; or Dacia Felix, 'Fertile/Happy Dacia') was a province of the Roman Empire from 106 to 271–275 AD. Its territory consisted of what are now the regions of Oltenia, Transylvania and Banat (today ...
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Thracian towns
Former populated places in the Balkans
Populated places in ancient Macedonia
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