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Praktios (river)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: E.N. Borza
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, G. Reger, R. Talbert
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Oct 31, 2025 10:30 AM — History
An ancient river of the Troad, possibly to be identified with the modern Umurbey Çayı.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/501577

40.2435690166, 26.6727709997
    • Less than certain: Ulu Dere (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
    • Less than certain: Umurbey Çayı (Turkish, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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river, drainage

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 51 H4 Praktios? fl.

BAtlDir provides the "modern" name "Ulu Dere", but the geometry labeled on BAtlas is clearly the river now referred to in OSM and Geonames as "Umurbey Çayı".


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E.N. Borza, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, G. Reger, and R. Talbert, 'Praktios (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/501577> [accessed: 12 December 2025] 

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