CO´RIUS
CO´RIUS (
Κόριος, Marcian, p. 20;
Ptol. 6.8.4; Coros, Pomp. Mela, 3.8.4), a small river of Carmania, which flows into the Persian Gulf, opposite the Island Ooracta (now
Keishm).
It has been supposed that it is the same as that now called the
Shúr or
Dio Rud. [
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