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View of Acheloos river, in Evritania, Greece.

Some Ancient Greek waterbodies beginning with AK:

ACALANDRUS (Άκάλανδρος), a river of Lucania, flowing into the golf of Tarentum. It is mentioned both by Pliny and Strabo, the former of whom appears to place it to the north of Heraclea: but his authority is not very distinct, and Strabo, on the contrary, dearly states that it was in the territory of Thurii, on which account Alexander of Epirus sought to transfer to its banks the general assembly of the Italian Greeks that had been previously held at Heraclea. [Heraclea.] Cluverius and other topographers, following the authority of Pliny, have identified it with the Salandrella, a small river between the Basiento and Agri; but there can be little doubt that Barrio and Romanelli are correct in supposing it to be a small stream, still called the Calandro, flowing into the sea a little N. of Roseto and about 10 miles S. of the mouth of the Siris or Sinno. It was probably the boundary between the territories of Heradea and Thurii. (Plin. iii. 11. § 15; Strab. p. 280; Cluver. Ital. p. 1277; Barrius de Ant, Calabr. v. 20; Romanelli, vol. i. p. 244.)

ACIRIS ('Ajcipis), a river of Lucania, mentioned both by Pliny and Strabo, as flowing near to Heraclea on the N. side, as the Siris did on the S. It is still called the Acri or Agri, and has a coarse of above 50 miles, rising in the Apennines near JTarMOS Xwovo, and flowing into the Golf of Ta^ mtam, a littfe to the N. (^ PolioorOj the site of the aodeDt Heradea. (Plin. iS. 11. s. 15; Strab. PL 264.) The Acn>u» of the Itinerary is snpposed It Chxveriiis to be a corraptim of this name, bnt it wodd spfetr to be that of a town, rather than a dnr. (Itin. Ant. p. 104.)

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A'CIUM, a small town on the £. coast of Sialy, lawtinned only in the Itinerary (Itin. Ant p 87), idnch places it on the high road from Catana to Tsoiancnhmi, at the distimoe of 9 H. P. from the faaer dty. It evidently derived its name from Hie little river Ads, and is probably identical with die nodem Ad Reakj a considerable town, aboat a ■ale from the sea, in the neighboarhood of which, IB the road to CatamOf are extensive remains of BooMD Thermae. (Biscari, Viaggio in Sicilia, fi 22; Ortolani, Dm. Gtogr. p. 9.)

ACIS (A«»)i a river of Sidlj, on the eastern of the ishmd, and inunediatelj at the foot of It is oel^Fated on aocoont of the mytho- fidde connected with its origin, which was ascribed to the Mood of the yoathlul Ads, crashed ladder an enonnooa rock by his rival Polyphemus. (Orid. UbL xiiL 750, &c; SiL ItaL xiv. 221—226; Antk Lat. L 148; Serr. ad Virg. Eel ix. S9, who cmaeoQsly writes the name Adnios.) It is evi- daaly in allnsion to the same stocy that Theocritos ifcaks of the "sacred waters of Acis." ("AjciSos ufim »«y>, Id^ i. 69.) Fiom this fitble itself we BMy infer that it was a small stream gashing forth bma onder a reck; the extreme coldness of its waters noticed by Solinas (Solin. 5. § 17) also pcnte to the same amclaaan. The last cinmm- Maaoe might lead ns to identify it with the streun aor csScd Fimme Frtddo^ bat there is every ap- pearance that the town of Adam derived its name from the river, and this was certainly fartho' soaih. There can be no doabt that Claverios is right in idBBtifyix^ it with the little river still called Fwmt A Jmcx, kiKiwn abo by the name of the Aeque Gramdij which rises under a rock of lava, and has a very short course to the sea, passing by the modern town of Act BeaU (Adam). The Ads* «as certainly quite distinct from the Acesines or Auaes, with which it has been oonfonnded by semal writers. (Clover. SieU pi 115; Smyth's Sm%, pi 132; Ortolani, IHt, Gtogr. p. 9; Fenara, Jkmru. deff ftea, p. 32.)

ACES (Άκης), a river of Asia, flowing through

The Achelous (Greek: Αχελώος, Ancient Greek: Ἀχελῷος Akhelôios), also Acheloos, is a river in western Greece. It is 220 km (137 mi) long.^[1][2] It formed the boundary between Acarnania and Aetolia of antiquity. It empties into the Ionian Sea. In ancient times its spirit was venerated as the river god Achelous.

Herodotus, taking notice of the shoreline-transforming power of the Acheloos River, even compared it to the Nile in this respect:

'There are other rivers as well which, though not as large as the Nile, have had substantial results. In particular (although I could name others), there is the Achelous, which flows through Acarnania into the sea and has already turned half the Echinades islands into mainland.' (2.10, trans. Waterfield)

ACO'NTIA or ACUTIA (Άκοντία, Strab. p. 152; Άκούτεια, Steph. B.), a town of the Vaccaei, in Hispania Tarraconensis, <» the river Durius (Douro), which had a ford here. Its site is unknown.

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Akarsu - Akarassos

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 Source:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Geography

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I will be maybe adding another ones as soon as I saw these in www.

Like: Among the Etruscans, there is a bearded and ox-horned god called Achlae. It is said that it came from Greek!