Meles may refer to:
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''Meles'' (genus), a genus of badgers
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Meles of Lydia
Meles (fl. 8th century BC; also known as Myrsus) was a semi-historical king of Lydia. According to Herodotus
Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persia ...
, a king of Lydia
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Meles Zenawi
Meles Zenawi Asres ( Tigringa and ; ), born Legesse Zenawi Asres (8 May 1955 – 20 August 2012) was an Ethiopian politician and former rebel militant commander who served as president of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995 and as prime minister from 19 ...
, prime minister of Ethiopia
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River Meles
The River Meles () (more appropriately described as "Meles Brook") is a stream charged with history and famous in literature, especially by virtue of being associated in a common and consistent tradition with Homer's birth and works. It flowed by t ...
, which flowed through ancient Smyrna
* Meles, a minor character from Pausanias' ''
Description of Greece
''Description of Greece'' () is the only surviving work by the ancient "geographer" or tourist Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias (c. 110 – c. 180).
Pausanias' ''Description of Greece'' comprises ten books, each of them dedicated to some ...
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