DYRAS
DYRAS (
Δύρας:
Gurgo), a river in Malis, which in the time of Herodotus flowed between the Spercheius and the Melas into the Maliac gulf.
At present, the
Gurgo (the Dyras) and the
Mavranéria (the Melas) unite their streams and fall into the Spercheius. (
Hdt. 7.198;
Strab. ix. p.428; Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. ii. pp. 11, 26.)