Hermos/Bathys (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Drew Bear Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: T. Drew Bear Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Aug 23, 2023 05:27 PM
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History
This ancient river of Asia Minor has been identified with the modern Sarısu Çayı in Turkey. It was a tributary of the Tembris (modern Porsuk Çayı), joining it near Dorylaion (modern Eskişehir).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/609401
39.7968611441, 30.3840190819
- Associated Modern Locations:
- GeoNames location of Sarısu Çayı (modern) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
- OSM location of Sarısu (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Bathys (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Hermos (30 BC - AD 300)
- Hermus amnis (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Sarısu Çayı (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Hermos/Bathys (river) flows into Tembris (river) (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 62 D2 Hermos/Bathys fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Sarısu
T. Drew Bear, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Hermos/Bathys (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/609401> [accessed: 13 June 2025]
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