Andanis

For the village in India, see Andani.
Straits of Hormouz

The Andanis River, also known as the Ananis and Anamis, was a river known to Ancient Greece.[1]

Location

It was a river of Carmania[2][3][4][5] mentioned by Ptolemy[6] and Pliny,[7] who called it the Ananis, and Arrian,[8] who called it the Anamis. It was located along the coast of Hormouz around latitude 27.5N and longitude 57.5E and has been tentatively identified with the Mināb river.

History

The river was mentioned by Ptolemy,[9][10] and Nearchus, being visited by the army of Alexander the Great.[11] It was located near the Island of Ormuz.[12]

References

  1. ^ Roaf, M. 'Anamis/Andanis/Ananis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2013(accessdate=January 31, 2017 ).
  2. ^ Adam Littleton, Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus.(T. Basset. J. Wright. and R. Chiswell, 1678 )
  3. ^ Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1819),
  4. ^ William Vincent, The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates (T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1797) p341.
  5. ^ Thomæ Thomasii Dictionarium, (Ex officina Iohannis Legati, 1644)
  6. ^ Ptolemy, 6.8.4
  7. ^ Pliny, Nat. Hist. 6.107
  8. ^ Arrian, Indica. 32.2, 35.7
  9. ^ William Vincent, Samuel Horsley, William Wales, The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean, Volume 1 (Asian Educational Services, 1807) p370.
  10. ^ William Vincent, The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates (T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1797) p 297.
  11. ^ William Vincent, The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates (T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1797) p62.
  12. ^ William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) .(John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854.)