Melas may refer to:
People
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Melas (mythology) In Greek mythology, the name Melas () refers to a number of characters.
*Melas, son of Poseidon and an unnamed nymph of Chios, brother of Agelus. Pausanias7.4.8/ref> He may or may not be identical to Melas, son of Poseidon, who was said to have gi ...
, a number of different characters in Greek mythology
* Melas, an Ancient Greek first name. Its most notable holders were Melas the Elder and Younger, two tyrants of
Ephesus
Ephesus (; ; ; may ultimately derive from ) was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, in present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of Apasa, the former Arzawan capital ...
whose dynasty intermarried with the
Mermnad dynasty of Lydia.
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Pavlos Melas (1870–1904), a Hellenic Army officer and a symbol of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia
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Chloe Melas, an American journalist
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Leon Melas (1812–1879), a Greek politician
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Michael von Melas
Michael Friedrich Benedikt Baron von Melas (12 May 1729 – 31 May 1806) was a Transylvanian-born field marshal of Greek descent for the Austrian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
He was born in Radeln, Transylvania, Ottoman Empire (nowadays R ...
, a field marshal for the Austrian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars
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Mihail Melas (1833–1897), a Greek politician and merchant
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Vasileios Melas (1879–1956), an officer of the Hellenic army, brother of Pavlos Melas
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Zafeiris Melas (born 1957), a Greek pop-folk singer
Places
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Melas, Kastoria, a village in Western Macedonia, Greece, formerly Statitsa, renamed for Pavlos Melas
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Pavlos Melas (municipality), in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece
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Melas (Naxos)
Melas () was a town of ancient Greece on the island of Naxos. It is cited, along with Elaeus
Elaeus ( ''Elaious'', later ''Elaeus''), the “Olive City”, was an ancient Greece, ancient Greek city located in Thrace, on the Thracian Chersones ...
, a town in ancient Greece
* Melas, now
Manavgat River
Manavgat River originates on the eastern slopes of Western Taurus Mountains in Turkey. In ancient times it was called Melas ().
At an elevation of 1,350 m, the outflow of several small springs joins together to become the headwaters of the Manavgat ...
, in Turkey
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Melas Chasma, a canyon on Mars
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Gulf of Melas, the previous name of Gulf of Saros, in Turkey
Other uses
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MELAS syndrome
MELAS (Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like episodes) is one of the family of mitochondrial diseases, which also include MIDD (maternally inherited diabetes and deafness), MERRF syndrome, and Leber's hereditary opti ...
, one of the family of mitochondrial cytopathies
* Plural of
mela
See also
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Mela (disambiguation)
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