Elektra (river of Messenia)

natural · 30 BC – 2099 AD

An ancient river mentioned only by Pausanias who describes it, along with the Koios, as lying between Andania and Kyparissia in Messenia. RE declines to identify it with a specific modern river. BAtlas 58 labels a river stretch corresponding to the middle course of the modern Mavrozoumena river as mapped and named in OpenStreetMap, but in BAtlDir the corresponding modern name / location is given as "Chouchlotos", which does not appear in GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, or elsewhere on the web.

Coordinates

37.25181, 21.90520

Also known as

Chouchlotos (en), Chouchlotos (en), Elektra (grc), Mavrozoumena (el), Μαυροζούμενα (el), Ἠλέκτρα (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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