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Siberis
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[German version]

(Σίβερις). Right-hand tributary of the Sangarius, dangerous because of its flooding (Procop. Aed. 5,4,1-3), also called Hieros flumen  (Plin. HN 5,149), modern Kirmir Çayı (otherwise still in [1]). From the 1st until the 3rd cent. AD it formed the border between Bithynia and Galatia (Plin. loc.cit.).

Strobel, Karl (Klagenfurt)

Bibliography

1 W. Ruge, s. v. Hieros flumen, RE 8, 1589.

Belke, 224.

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Strobel, Karl (Klagenfurt), “Siberis”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 07 July 2022 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1111610>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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