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Melsus

Μέλσος

Melsus (Μέλσος), a small river of Hispania Tarraconenis, flowing into the sea through the territory of the Astures, not far from the city Noega (Νοίγα). Perhaps the modern Narcea. (Strab. iii. p.167; Florez, Esp. Sagr. xv. p. 47.)

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.