Achelous (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.M. Murray Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: W.M. Murray Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Mar 04, 2024 05:21 PM
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History
A river of Western Greece. Its floods were noted by Herodotus.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530768
38.9852195613, 21.328544947
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Acheloos (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Achelous (river) flows into Ionium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Oiniadai connection Achelous (river) (unspecified date range)
- Palaia Pleuron located near Achelous (river) (550 BC - 330 BC)
river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 54 D4 Achelous fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Akheloos, formerly Aspropotamos
W.M. Murray, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Achelous (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530768> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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