Hypios (river)

natural · 330 BC – 2099 AD

A river mentioned in ancient sources. Modern scholars identify it with the lower/larger (Büyük) course of the modern Melen Çay (Buyukmelen), which drains the marshy Efteni Golü (much diminished from its pre-modern extent). Ancient people seem to have extended the "Hypios" name past the lake and up one of its tributaries, but scholarly opinion is divided as to whether this was the modern Ugursuyu/Ogursu/Akarsu (Robert 1980, whence Foss in BAtlas) or the upper/smaller (Küçük) Melen Çayı (Strobel in New Pauly).

Coordinates

40.87721, 31.05724

Also known as

Büyükmelen Çayı (tr), Büyükmelen Çayı (tr), Hypios potamos (grc), Hyppium flumen (la), Hyppivm fl. (la), Ὕπιος πόταμος (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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