DEVENTER, a large, strong, trading, and populous town of the United Provinces, in Overijssel, with an university. It is surrounded with strong walls, flanked with several towers, and with ditches full of water. It is seated on the river Issel, 55 miles east of Amsterdam, and 42 west of Bentheim. E. Long. 5. 8. N. Lat. 52. 18.