Koios (river)
natural · 1900 AD – 2099 AD
An ancient river mentioned only by Pausanias, who describes it, along with the Elektra, as lying between Andania and Kyparissia in Messenia. RE declines to identify it with a specific modern river other than to assert that it must have been a tributary of the ancient Balyra. BAtlas 58 labels a river stretch corresponding to the upper course of the modern Mavrozoumena river as mapped and named in OpenStreetMap. In BAtlDir, the corresponding modern name / location is given as "Malthis ", a name that does not appear in GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, or Wikidata, but that is clearly related to Malthi, a modern village near this river stretch. The BAtlas arrangement makes the Koios a tributary of the Elektra, which is then a tributary of the Balyra.
- Coordinates
- 37.23047, 21.87030
- Also known as
- Koios, Malthis (en), Mavrozoumena (el), Μαυροζούμενα (el)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)