Lykos (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 31, 2020 03:15 PM
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History
The ancient Lykos river (modern Nahr al-Kalb) flows from the Libanus mountains to the Mediterranean, passing ca. 10 km north of Beirut.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/678269
33.9485713422, 35.6141245642
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Nahr El Kalb (river) (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Λύκος (Lykos: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
- نهر الكلب (Nahr al-Kalb: Arabic, modern)
- flumen Lycos (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Lykos (river) flows into Internum Mare (modern)
- Nahr al-Kalb monuments located on Lykos (river) (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 69 C2 Lykos fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Nahr el-Kelb LEB
E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown, Jeffrey Becker, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Gabriel Moss, 'Lykos (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/678269> [accessed: 04 July 2025]
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