Melanthios (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Sinclair, David Braund Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: T. Sinclair, David Braund Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Aug 23, 2019 08:23 PM
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History
A river that flows into the Black Sea: the modern Melet in northern Turkey.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/857232
40.638339245, 37.8383180297
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of the Melet basin (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Melanthios (30 BC - AD 640)
- Melant(h)ium (Melanthium: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Melet Irmak (English, modern)
- Melet Irmağı (Turkish, modern)
- Melanthios (river) flows into Pontus Euxinus (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 87 C4 Melanthios fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Melet Irmak
T. Sinclair, David Braund, R. Talbert, Diane Braund, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Melanthios (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/857232> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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