Spercheios
| Spercheios | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Greece |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Tymfristos |
| Mouth | |
• location | Malian Gulf, Aegean Sea |
• coordinates | 38°51′50″N 22°34′35″E / 38.86389°N 22.57639°E |
| Length | 80 km (50 mi) |
| Basin size | 1,830 km2 (710 sq mi) |
The Spercheios (
god in the ancient Greek religion and appears in some collections of Greek mythology. In antiquity, its upper valley was known as Ainis. In AD 997, its valley was the site of the Battle of Spercheios, which ended Bulgarian incursions into the Byzantine Empire
.
It is referenced in a surviving fragment of Aeschylus' play Philoctetes, quoted in The Frogs, as a place for cattle.[3]
River
The river begins in the
black and white hellebore
.
Several studies have been conducted regarding the river's hydrological regime.[4] Its silt has slowly filled the Malian Gulf, turning Thermopylae from a narrow pass into a wide plain.
God
References
Citations
- ^ Greece in Figures January - March 2018, p. 12
- ^ "Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment" (in Greek). Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change. p. 61. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020.
- ^ Aristophanes. The Frogs.
- ^ 1.
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 32
Bibliography
- Béquignon, Yves (1937). La vallée du Spercheios des origines au IVe siècle. Études d'archéologie et de topographie (in French). Paris: De Boccard.
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