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The Crati is the largest river in the region in terms of discharge, both as an annual average (about 36 m/s), minimum (about 10 m/s) and maximum (more than 3,000 m/s). The river is very seasonal and can sometimes bring disastrous winter
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In the time of
Sybaris the Coscile was not a tributary of the Crati but pursued a direct course to the Gulf of Taranto. It probably followed a course at a short distance to the north of Sybaris.
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taken from the site of
Sybaris by Stanley and Bernasconi did not find such river deposits directly above the former city. Future retrieval of additional cores and
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is its main tributary on the left which again doubles the river in size. It continues eastwards, passing immediately south of the archaeological site of
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diverted the course of the
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Because of its close proximity to the famous ancient city of
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at an elevation of 1,742 meters. It descends very steeply northward towards
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The Crati at its confluence with the
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praises the river and alleges that it would change the color of the hair to
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river, doubling in size. From here on it flows through a large
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above the city when the river submerged it. An analysis of
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532:Richard J.A. Talbert, ed. (2000).
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763:Drainage basins of the Ionian Sea
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369:of 20 m/s it continues to
321:The Crati rises in the central
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73:Physical characteristics
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33:The Crati at Cosenza
638:Historiae mirabiles
614:; Pliny the Elder,
293:classical antiquity
219:Basin features
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609:Geographica
589:Euripides,
567:Lycophron,
352:tributaries
224:Tributaries
154: /
737:Categories
722:2013-01-13
634:Apollonius
607:; Strabo,
543:0691049459
519:References
435:Theocritus
336:Craticello
332:Aprigliano
185:Basin size
142:16°31′45″E
139:39°43′25″N
672:Histories
569:Alexandra
498:deposited
475:Herodotus
471:Pausanias
465:river in
443:Euripides
431:Lycophron
412:Hydrology
367:discharge
317:Geography
197:Discharge
748:Bruttium
687:Strabo,
649:Strabo,
598:; Ovid,
502:sediment
373:where a
287:and the
285:Volturno
277:Calabria
257:, Duglia
253:Arente,
67:Calabria
48:Location
743:Lucania
663:7.25.11
494:channel
492:in its
490:pebbles
463:Krathis
425:History
401:of the
391:Sybaris
387:Coscile
379:Coscile
365:With a
344:Busento
340:Cosenza
325:in the
297:Crathis
242:Coscile
238:Busento
53:Country
692:6.1.13
667:8.15.9
612:6.1.13
605:15.315
576:Idylls
540:
510:facies
482:Croton
467:Achaea
459:Strabo
447:auburn
439:poetry
419:floods
403:comune
399:marina
395:Thurii
385:. The
371:Tarsia
356:Mucone
328:comune
310:Κρᾶθις
301:Crater
255:Mucone
227:
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177:Length
82:Source
63:Region
676:1.145
656:8.7.4
455:sheep
348:plain
305:Greek
291:. In
273:Crati
107:Mouth
57:Italy
22:Crati
630:p. 9
619:31.9
579:5.16
538:ISBN
488:and
486:sand
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289:Sele
271:The
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