Lykos (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: C. Foss Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 26, 2025 08:37 PM
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History
An ancient river that empties into the Black Sea near Heraclea Pontica. The BAtlas identifies it with the modern Gülünç Su (Gülüç Çayı). Brill's New Pauly uses another modern name of the same river: Ayndınlar Çayı.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/845006
41.2488755845, 31.5307499732
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of the lower portion of the modern Gülüç Çayı (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- AWMC Representative Position for Lykos (river) (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 1860 meters.
- OSM Location of third segment of the Gülüç Çayı (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of second segment of modern Gülüç Çayı (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of hte fifth segment of the modern Gülüç Çayı (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location of fourth segment of the Gülüç Çayı (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Lykos (550 BC - AD 640)
- Lykos (river) flows into Pontus Euxinus (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage, river mouth
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 86 B2 Lykos fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Gülüç Çayı
C. Foss, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Lykos (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/845006> [accessed: 19 May 2025]
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