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Θύαμις

Πηγάζει από το Β τμήμα του νομού Ιωαννίνων, ρέει Ν ανάμεσα στα όρη Τύμφη και Κασιδιάρης και 20 περίπου χλμ. Δ των Ιωαννίνων στρέφεται Δ και διερχόμενος τη Θεσπρωτία εκβάλλει στο Ιόνιον Πέλαγος, στο Στενό της Κέρκυρας, Ν της Σαγιάδας. Μήκος 115 χλμ.

Καλαμάς

Ιστοσελίδα Νομαρχίας Θεσπρωτίας
• http://www.nthesprotias.gr/munic_sights.php?id=2 (2 φωτ.)

Thyamis

• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor?lang=en&f...

Τα ποτάμια της Ηπείρου

• http://www.epirus.org/gr/potam.html (28 φωτ.)

Thyamis

Now Kalama; a river in Epirus, forming the boundary between Thesprotia and the district of Cestryna.

Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Per...

Thyamis

  Thyamis (Thuamis), a river of Epeirus, flowing into the sea near a promontory of the same name. (Ptol. iii. 14. § § 4, 5.) It formed the northern boundary of Thesprotia, which it separated from Cestrine, a district of Chaonia (Thuc. i. 46; Strab. vii. p. 324; Pans. i. 11. § 2; Cic. ad Att. vii. 2, de Leg. ii. 3; Plin. iv. 1.) It is now called Kalama, apparently from the large reeds and aquatic plants which grow upon one of its principal tributaries. Its ancient name seems to have been derived from the thua or juniper, which, Leake informs us, though not abundant near the sources of the river, is common in the woody hills which border the middle of its course. The historian Phylarchus related (ap. Athen. iii. p. 73) that the Egyptian bean, which grew only in marshy places and nowhere but in Egypt, once grew for a short time upon the banks of the Thyamis. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 103, vol. iv. p. 97.)

This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Per...