in Ancient Geography, a district of Moesia Superior to the south. Now the south part of Servia, towards the confines of Macedonia and Illyria.

Dardani was the name of the people, who seem to have been descendants of the Dardani of Troas. Also a small district of Troas, along the Hellespont, (Mela, Virgil); and the ancient name of Samothracea, (Pliny), from Dardanus, who removed thither.

DARDANUM promontorium, (Pliny); Dardanis, (Strabo); a promontory of Troas, near Abydos, running out into the Hellespont; with a cognominal town at it, called Dardanus, and Dardanum; all which gave name to the Dardanelles.