Dimale

DIMALE or Dimallon (Krotine) S Albania.

A city on a high peak of Mt. Shpiragrit. The acropolis and the residential area were enclosed by a circuit wall ca. 2400 m long. The city commanded the route along the E side of the swampy plain of Myzeqija, which led N from Apollonia. Coins and inscriptions are of the Hellenistic period. The city was occupied by Demetrius and captured by the Romans in 219 B.C. (Polyb. 3.18 and 7.9.13; cf. Livy 29.12.3).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

C. Praschniker, “Muzakhia und Malakastra,” JOAI 21-22 (1922) 103; B. Dautaj, “La découverte de la cité illyrienne de Dimale,” Studia Albanica (1965) 1.65ff; N.G.L. Hammond, “Illyris, Rome and Macedon in 229-205 B.C.,” JRS 58 (1968) 12ff.

N.G.L. HAMMOND