Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography/Balla

​BALLA, or VALLA (Βάλλα, Steph. B. s. v.; Οὐάλλαι, Ptol. iii. 13. § 40: Eth. Βαλλαῖος, Steph.; Vallaeus, Plin. iv. 10. s. 17), a town of Macedonia, placed in Pieria by Ptolemy and Pliny, the inhabitants of which were removed to Pythium. (Steph. l. c.) As Pythium was in Perrhaebia, at the south-western foot of the Pierian mountains, Leake places Balla in the mountainous part of Pieria, and sup-poses that Velvendó may have derived its name from it. In that case it would be a different place from the Bala of the Table, which stood about midway between Dium and Berrhoea. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 425.)

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