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Melas

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Melas may refer to:

People

  • Melas (mythology), a number of different characters in Greek mythology
  • 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 1957), 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

Other uses

  • MELAS syndrome, one of the family of mitochondrial cytopathies

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Melas
  • All pages with titles containing Melas
  • Mela (disambiguation)
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