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Koios (river)

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

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