Dium

DIUM, a City which Ptolemy makes a part of Cœle-Syria, and places in the sixtyseventh degree and an half of Latitude, and in the thirty first and an half of Longitude. Pliny fixes it in the neighbourhood of Pella beyond Jordan, and reckons it among the Cities of Decapolis. The old accounts taken by the Emperors, join it to Arabia. Josephus Joseph. Antiq. l. 14. c. 8.says, that Pompey restored it to its ancient inhabitants. Stephens the Geographer says, that Alexander built it¹.

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