Devol

The Devoll valley lies amid the mountains of southeastern Albania and takes its name from the river that flows through it. Pottery found in Tren cave shows contact with the Mycenaean world in the Late Bronze Age. In the Middle Ages the fortress of Deabolis gave its name to the treaty concluded in 1108 between Bohemond of Antioch and the Byzantine emperor Alexios I. Byzantines and Bulgarians later contested the stronghold, which remained important into the 14th century.