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Salathus

Σάλαθος

Salathus (Σάλαθος, Ptol. 4.6.5), a river on the W. coast of Africa, with a town of the same name. This river, which took its rise in Mt. Mandrus, is represented by one of the Wadys, which flows into the sea in the district occupied by the ancient Autololes, on the coast to the N. of Cape Mirik.

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.