Melas

{{wikt|melas|mêlas|mēļas|mēļās}} '''Melas''' may refer to: {{toc right}}

==People== * Melas (mythology), a number of different characters in Greek mythology * Melas, an Ancient Greek first name. Its most notable holders were Melas the Elder and Younger, two tyrants of Ephesus whose dynasty intermarried with the Mermnad dynasty of Lydia. * The name of an Egyptian monk, venerated in the Catholic Church, who opposed Arianism in the time of Emperor Valens * 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 * Gulf of Melas, the previous name of Gulf of Saros, in Turkey

==Other uses== * MELAS syndrome, one of the family of mitochondrial cytopathies * Plural of mela

==See also== {{srt}} * Mela (disambiguation)