Hypanis/Kuban (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: David Braund Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: David Braund Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 08, 2025 05:04 PM
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History
The modern Kuban river, which flows from the Caucasus to the Black Sea, was known as the Hypanis in Greco-Roman sources (one of three distinct rivers with this name).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/825273
44.8792037346, 40.2910795673
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Kuban River (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Hypanis (330 BC - AD 300)
- Hypanis/Kuban (river) flows into Pontus Euxinus (unspecified date range)
- Sokolova Mohyla located on Hypanis/Kuban (river) (AD 1 - AD 99)
river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 84 C3 Hypanis fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kuban RUS
David Braund, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Diane Braund, and Tom Elliott, 'Hypanis/Kuban (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/825273> [accessed: 21 January 2025]
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