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Hypios (river)

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).

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