Deris

DERIS (Δερίς), a small town in the S. of Thrace, on the bay of Melas. (Scyl. p. 27.) [L.S]

DERIS or DERRHIS (Δέρις, Strab. 17. p. 799; Δέρρις, Ptol. 4.5.7; Δέρρον or Δέρρα, Stadiasm. p. 436), a promontory on the coast of Marmarica in N. Africa, between the harbours of Leucaspis and Phoenicus, named from a black rock in the shape of a hide. Pacho takes it for the headland now called El Heyf. (Voyage dans la Marmarique, &100. p. 18.)