The Taexali
"More toward the east are the Taezali [sic] and the town: Devana 26*00 59°00"
Above quote from the Geographia of Ptolemy (II.ii)
The Taexali tribe occupied/inhabited coastal regions of south-east Grampian and north-east Tayside.
The Civitas Taexalorum
The Principal Tribal Centre
Devana (Aberdeen, Grampian)
Suspected minor Romano-British settlement at the mouth of the River Dee
Other passages in Ptolemy Book II Chapter 2 give the ancient names of a number of rivers and other geographical features within the territories of the Taexali tribe:
| Taezalon Prom. | 27*30 | 58°30 | [= Taexalorum Prom. = Kinnaird's Head, Grampian] |
| Devana | 26*00 | 59°00 | [?= Devana = Aberdeen, Grampian?] |
