Danala

DA´NALA (Δάναλα), a place in Galatia, in the territory of the Trocmi, where Cn. Pompeius and L. Lucullus met, when Pompeius came to continue the campaign against Mithridates, and Lucullus surrendered the command to him. The site is unknown. Plutarch (Plut. Luc. 100.36) merely says that the two Romans met in a village of Galatia. (See the note in Groskurd's Strabo, vol. 2. p. 512.)

(τὰ Δάναλα). A city in the territory of the Troini, in the northeast of Galatia, notable in the history of the Mithridatic War as the place where Lucullus resigned the command to Pompey.