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Herodotus suspects the word Eridanos to be essentially Greek in character, and notably forged by some unknown poet, and expresses his disbelief in the whole concept—passed on to him by others, themselves not eye-witnesses—of such a river flowing into a northern sea, surrounding Europe, where the mythical Amber and Tin Isles were supposed ...
Eridanos (mythology) (or Eridanus), a river in Greek mythology, somewhere in Central Europe, which was territory that Ancient Greeks knew only vaguely; The Po River, according to Roman word usage; Eridanos (Athens), a former river near Athens, now subterranean
Eridanos deposits in the Netherlands dating from the late Early Pleistocene Menapian glacial stage show the presence of Scandinavian erratic boulders ("Hattem Layers"). [5] These erratics are supposed to be transported by fluvial drift ice and are the first indicators in this part of the North Sea Basin of a major glaciation in the Scandinavian ...
Eridanus was the 'deep-swirling' river-god son of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. [1] He was the father of Zeuxippe, mother of the Argonauts Butes and Eribotes by Teleon. [2] Eridanus may be the same or different with his another river-god namesake.
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Eridanus, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B F G. Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. ... ne: γ Cas variable; Be ...
Eridanus is a constellation which stretches along the southern celestial hemisphere. It is represented as a river . One of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy , it remains one of the 88 modern constellations .
These waves of settlement mark Myzeqe as the area where all Albanian subgroups: Gheg, Tosk, and Lab populations meet. [3] Most inhabitants are Albanians, [ 11 ] but there are Vlachs established mainly in Divjake town, and some of the Fier villages and some Romani people , as well as the linguistically assimilated Bosniaks of Libofshë . [ 12 ]
The Presidential Office (Albanian: Selia e Presidencës) houses the office of the President of Albania and is the principal workplace of the president. It consists of the immediate staff of the president, as well as support staff reporting to the president.