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Travus

Τραῦος

Travus (Τραῦος, Hdt. 7.109), a small river in the S. of Thrace, which falls into the λίμνη Βιστονίς, a shallow aestuary penetrating far into the land, NE of Abdera. The Travus is the principal outlet for the drainage of that part of southern Thrace which is included between the Nestus and the Hebrus.

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.