Meles

Meles may refer to:

  • A genus of Eurasian badgers, Meles see ( genus )

In the ancient geography:

  • Meles ( Ionia ), Waters at Smyrna, on the banks of the legend, Homer composed his poems, perhaps the Halkapınar, a swelling pond in İzmir, which drains into the Mediterranean
  • Meles ( Paphlagonia ), small river in Paphlagonia, empties in Kromna in the Black Sea, about 5 km west of present-day Kurucaşile in Turkey

Name of person:

  • Meles, king of Lydia (Asia Minor)
  • Meles ( Athens ), who rejected the love of the metic Timagoras and so drove him to his death
  • Meles from Bari ( † 1020), Apulian separatist

First name of people:

  • Meles Zenawi (1955-2012), Ethiopian politician
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