Kyros (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.E. Kroll Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S.E. Kroll Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Dec 09, 2024 10:04 AM
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History
The modern Kura river, which rises in Turkey and then, after flowing through Georgia and Azerbaijan, it empties into the Caspian Sea.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/884173
40.803164842, 45.9356869955
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of the modern Kura (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Kyros (river) flows into Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Alazonios (river) flows into Kyros (river) (unspecified date range)
- Didi Liakhvi intersects Kyros (river) (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 90 D1 Kyros fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Mtkvari/Kura AZE/GEO
S.E. Kroll, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kyros (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/884173> [accessed: 24 June 2025]
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