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Electra

Ἠλέκτρα

Electra (Ἠλέκτρα, Ptol. 3.17.4), a river on the S. coast of Crete, which Kiepert's map identifies with the Malogniti, the most important river in the island, flowing in a direction parallel with the coast from E. to W. Höck (Kreta, vol. i. p. 393) considers it to be the same as the small stream Galigni, further to the W.

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.