Beris
Βῆρις
Beris or BIRES (Βῆρις, Βίρης), a river of Pontus, which Arrian places 60 stadia from the Thoaris. Hamilton (Researches, &c. vol. i. p. 280) identifies it with the Melitsch Chai, a deep and sluggish river,
between Unieh and the Thermodon. He found it to be six miles, or 60 stadia, from the Thuréh Irmak, which he seems to identify correctly with the Thoaris.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.