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Achelous River (Arcadia)

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The Achelous (Ancient Greek: Ἀχελῷος Akhelôios), also Acheloos, is a mountain torrent of ancient Arcadia, flowing into the Alpheus, from the north of Mount Lycaeus.[1][2]

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  1. ^ Pausanias (1918). "38.9". Description of Greece. Vol. 8. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  2. ^ Gustav Hirschfeld: Acheloos 4.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. I,1, Stuttgart 1893, col. 214.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Achelous". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.