Chrysoroas/Bardines (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 31, 2026 09:00 PM
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History
Chrysoroas/Bardines fl. (Barada river) flows through Syria from the Anti-Lebanon Mountains to the oasis of Ghouta (الغوطة).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678095
33.5141349207, 36.2945038016
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Barada river (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Bardines (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Beredā (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- Chrysoroas (330 BC - AD 640)
- Nahr Barada (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Chrysoroas/Bardines (river) connection Antilibanus M. (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 69 D2 Chrysoroas/Bardines fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Nahr Barada SYR
E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown, Jeffrey Becker, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Chrysoroas/Bardines (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678095> [accessed: 14 May 2026]
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