Archous (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 19, 2025 11:57 AM
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History
A river of Mesopotamia in the Roman period, and possibly somewhat earlier. It is perhaps to be associated with the modern Shatt al-Gharaf in Iraq.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912811
32.0301664387, 45.9991697928
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM Location of modern course of the Shatt Al Gharrat (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Archous (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
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- Apamea located on Archous (river) (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 B2 Archous? fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: perhaps Shatt al-Gharraf IRQ
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, P. Flensted Jensen, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Archous (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912811> [accessed: 21 June 2025]
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