Andanis
The Andanis River, also known as the Ananis and Anamis, was a river known to Ancient Greece.[1]
Location
[edit]It was a river of Carmania[2][3][4][5] mentioned by Ptolemy[6] and Pliny,[7] who called it the Ananis, and Arrian,[8] who called it the Anamis. It was located along the coast of Hormouz around latitude 27.5N and longitude 57.5E and has been tentatively identified with the Mināb river.
History
[edit]The river was mentioned by Ptolemy,[9][10] and Nearchus, being visited by the army of Alexander the Great.[11] It was located near the Island of Ormuz.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ Roaf, M. 'Anamis/Andanis/Ananis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2013(accessdate=January 31, 2017 ).
- ^ Adam Littleton, Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus.(T. Basset. J. Wright. and R. Chiswell, 1678 )
- ^ Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1819),
- ^ William Vincent, The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates (T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1797) p341.
- ^ Thomæ Thomasii Dictionarium, (Ex officina Iohannis Legati, 1644)
- ^ Ptolemy, 6.8.4
- ^ Pliny, Nat. Hist. 6.107
- ^ Arrian, Indica. 32.2, 35.7
- ^ William Vincent, Samuel Horsley, William Wales, The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean, Volume 1 (Asian Educational Services, 1807) p370.
- ^ William Vincent, The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates (T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1797) p 297.
- ^ William Vincent, The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates (T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1797) p62.
- ^ William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) .(John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854.)
| Lake Urmia basin | |
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| Persian Gulf basin | |
| Oman sea basin | |
| Caspian basin | |
| Gavkhouni basin | |
| Namak Lake basin | |
| Hamun-e Jaz Murian basin | |
| Other | |
