"This battle did not take place at the Lakonian Dereion, but one would expect Derai to mean a 'small hill'. the place-name Dera occurs in a fragmentary late second century Messenian inscrption, which appears to have been a definition of the Messenian borders with Arkadia, otherwise, nothing else is known about this place."@en . "This battle did not take place at the Lakonian Dereion, but one would expect Derai to mean a 'small hill'. the place-name Dera occurs in a fragmentary late second century Messenian inscrption, which appears to have been a definition of the Messenian borders with Arkadia, otherwise, nothing else is known about this place."@en . . . . . . "Battle of Deres"@en . "Battle of Deres"@en . "Messenia"@en . . "the Second Messenian War"@en . . . "Messenia"@en . . . "c. 684 BC?"@en . . "Sparta"@en . "Disputed"@en . .