Devol (Q3394403)

Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Devol (Bulgarian: Девол) also Deabolis or Diabolis, (Greek: Δεάβολις) was a medieval fortress and bishopric in western Macedonia, located south of Lake Ohrid in what is today the south-eastern corner of Albania (Devoll municipality). Its precise location is unknown today, but it is thought to have been located by the river of the same name (today Devoll River), and on the Roman Via Egnatia road. It is first mentioned in historical sources in John Skylitzes' account of the Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars under Emperor Basil II, whose general Eustathios Daphnomeles is said to have subdued some of the last Bulgarian resisting forces concentrated in Deabolis in 1018. The place is also mentioned in a 1019 charter granted by Basil to the Bulgarian church, as a kastron (castle) under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Kastoria.

Summary from Български език / Bulgarian Wikipedia (bgwiki)

Дево̀л е средновековен град, важен административен, църковен и културен център в Първата българска държава. Градът е бил разположен край едноименната река в днешна Югоизточна Албания.

Summary from Македонски јазик / Macedonian Wikipedia (mkwiki)

Девол (грчки: Δεβόλι) — средновековен град, важен административен, црковен и културен центар на средновековната македонска цивилизација. Градот се наоѓал покрај истоимената река во денешна југоисточна Албанија.

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