Cainnas (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 06, 2021 08:51 PM
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History
An ancient river of the Indian peninsula, mentioned by Pliny and Arrian, that perhaps should be identified with the modern Ken.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59757
24.9389704, 80.0823728
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of modern Ken river (modern)
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- Cainnas (Latin, 330 BC - 30 BC)
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river, drainage
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 E5 Cainnas? fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ken
M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Cainnas (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59757> [accessed: 26 September 2023]
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