The Anapus or Anapos () was a river in ancient
Acarnania
Acarnania () is a region of west-central Greece that lies along the Ionian Sea, west of Aetolia, with the Achelous River for a boundary, and north of the gulf of Calydon, which is the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth. Today it forms the western part ...
. It was a tributary of the
Achelous River
The Achelous (, ''Akhelôios''), also Acheloos, is a river in Epirus, western Greece. It is long. It formed the boundary between Acarnania and Aetolia of antiquity. It empties into the Ionian Sea. In ancient times its spirit was venerated as ...
, which it joined eighty stadia south of
Stratus
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Weather
*Stratus cloud, a cloud type
**Nimbostratus cloud, a cloud type
**Stratocumulus cloud, a cloud type
**Altostratus cloud, a cloud type
** Altostratus undulatus cloud, a cloud type
**Cirrostratus cloud, a cloud type
Mu ...
.
The name was also applied to a river in Sicily (the modern
Anapo
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).
References
Ancient Acarnania
Rivers of Greece
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