Melas

son of Phrixus, figure of Greek mythology

Melas may refer to: ==People== Melas (mythology), a number of different characters in Greek mythology Melas, an Ancient Greek first name. Its most notable holders were Melas the Elder and Younger, two rulers of Ephesus whose dynasty intermarried with the Mermnad dynasty of Lydia. The name of a Greco-Egyptian bishop of Rhinocorura, venerated as a saint in some churches, who opposed Arianism in the time of Emperor Valens Pavlos Melas (1870–1904), a Hellenic Army officer and a symbol of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia Chloe Melas, an American journalist Leon Melas (1812–1879), a Greek politician Michael von Melas, a field marshal for the Austrian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars Mihail Melas (1833–1897), a Greek politician and merchant Vasileios Melas (1879–1956), an officer of the Hellenic army, brother of Pavlos Melas Zafeiris Melas (born 1957¹), a Greek pop-folk singer ==Places== Melas, Kastoria, a village in Western Macedonia, Greece, formerly Statitsa, renamed for Pavlos Melas Pavlos Melas (municipality), in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece Melas (Naxos), a town in ancient Greece Melas, now Manavgat River, in Turkey Melas Chasma, a canyon on Mars Gulf of Melas, the previous name of Gulf of Saros, in Turkey ==Other uses== MELAS syndrome, one of the family of mitochondrial cytopathies Plural of mela ==See also== Mela (disambiguation)

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