Lykos (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 03, 2021 08:14 PM
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History
A tributary of the ancient Phrygios and, through it, of the ancient Hermus river, the Lykos ran just west of ancient Thyateira (modern Akhisar in Turkey). The Barrington Atlas recorded its modern name as "Gördük Çay".
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550702
38.9025121129, 27.7786110767
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of modern river segment (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Lykos (30 BC - AD 300)
- Lykos (river) flows into Phrygios (river) (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 F4 Lykos fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Gördük Çay
C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Lykos (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550702> [accessed: 20 April 2024]
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