Note 015
A city surrounded by the River Hebrus, and six
leagues to the south of Adrianople, received from its double
wall the Greek name of Didymoteichos, insensibly corrupted
into Demotica and Dimot. I have preferred the more
convenient and modern appellation of Demotica. This place
was the last Turkish residence of Charles XII.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 61