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A small river near Athens was named Eridanos in ancient times, and has been rediscovered with the excavations for construction of the Athens Metro.There were no serious scientific works that would investigate the connection of Eridanus with the Balkan hydronym for the river Drina, although such studies would be necessary, bearing in mind the ...
[2] [3] The formation of the Eridanos began about 40 million years ago in the Eocene . By about 12 million years ago in the Miocene , the Eridanos had reached the area currently occupied by the North Sea , where sediments carried by the river built an immense delta .
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.
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
Upsilon 2 Eridani (υ² Eridani, abbreviated Upsilon 2 Eri, υ 2 Eri), officially named Theemin / ˈ θ iː m ə n /, [10] [11] is a star in the constellation of Eridanus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 3.8. [ 2 ]
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 .
The League was a military alliance of feudal lords in Albania forged in Lezhë on 2 March 1444, initiated and organised under Venetian patronage [41] with Skanderbeg as leader of the regional Albanian and Serbian chieftains united against the Ottoman Empire. [42]
Established in 2022, the national park is located in northern Albania and covers an area of 8,844.65 ha (88.4465 km 2). [2] The most prominent mountain range are the Albanian Alps (also called the Accursed Mountains), which are also the name sake of the national park.