Histories

These are the native-born Scythian rivers that help to swell it; but the Maris river, which commingles with the Ister, flows from the Agathyrsi. The Atlas, Auras, and Tibisis, three other great rivers that pour into it, flow north from the heights of +Stara Planina (mountain range), Europe Haemus.[*](The +Balkan [29.6,37.966] (inhabited place), Denizli Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Balkan range. None of the rivers in this chapter can be certainly identified; the names *ka/rpis and *)/alpis must indicate tributaries descending from the +Alps (mountain system), Europe Alps and +Carpathian Mountains [25.5,47] (mountain system), Europe Carpathians.) The Athrys, the Noes, and the Artanes flow into the Ister from the country of the Crobyzi in Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace; the Cius river, which cuts through the middle of +Stara Planina (mountain range), Europe Haemus, from the Paeonians and the mountain range of +Nomos Rodhopis [25.5,41.83] (department), Western Thrace, Greece, Europe Rhodope.

The Angrus river flows north from +Illyria (region (general)), Europe Illyria into the Triballic plain and the Brongus river, and the Brongus into the Ister, which receives these two great rivers into itself. The Carpis and another river called Alpis also flow northward, from the country north of the Ombrici, to flow into it;

for the Ister traverses the whole of Europe (continent)Europe, rising among the Celts, who are the most westerly dwellers in Europe (continent)Europe, except for the Cynetes, and flowing thus clean across Europe (continent)Europe it issues forth along the borders of Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia.