Debot
a village community on both banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt, about six miles above the first cataract and not far from ancient Philae. The ruins of the temple of Debot are of great interest.
It was built by the Nubian king, Ezekher- Amon, of the time of the earlier Ptolemies and was enlarged by Ptolemy Philometor. The second of the three doorways at entering has a Greek inscription to this Ptolemy and his wife Cleopatra. The first hall has reliefs of Ezekher-Amon, and over the door is an inscription of his. In the sanctuary further along is a granite naos, broken in two and dating from Ptolemy Energetes, second successor of Philometor, both dating from the middle of the second century before Christ. Near by are the remains of one of the permanent Roman camps, mentioned in the Itinerarium Antonini. It was called Parembole. DEBRECZIN (dé-bri'sin), a town of Hungary, on the edge of the great central plain, 113 miles E. of Budapest. Its houses are mostly of a single story; the streets broad and unpaved. Among the principal edifices are the Protestant church and college. Chief manufactures are coarse woolens, leather, soap, tobacco-pipes, casks, etc., and a large trade is done in cattle. Debreczin is considered the headquarters of Hungarian Protestantism. Pop. about 85,000.