Gyndes (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Roaf, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
The Gyndes was a river of Assyria and Susiana that is discussed by Herodotus. Its precise location can not be determined with certainty, but some scholars have identified it with the modern Diyala river in Iraq.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897772
34.2777667817, 45.1374277036
- Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: OSM Location of the modern Diyala River (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Γύνδης (Gyndes: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- Gyndes (river) flows into Tigris/Diglitus (river) (550 BC - 330 BC)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 91 Gyndes fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Diyala?
M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Gyndes (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897772> [accessed: 04 October 2024]
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