# Melas

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'''Melas''' may refer to:
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==People==
* [Melas (mythology)](/source/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](/source/Ephesus) whose dynasty intermarried with the [Mermnad](/source/Mermnad) dynasty of Lydia. 
* The name of an Egyptian monk, venerated in the Catholic Church, who opposed [Arianism](/source/Arianism) in the time of Emperor [Valens](/source/Valens)
* [Pavlos Melas](/source/Pavlos_Melas) (1870–1904), a Hellenic Army officer and a symbol of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia
* [Chloe Melas](/source/Chloe_Melas), an American journalist 
* [Leon Melas](/source/Leon_Melas) (1812–1879), a Greek politician
* [Michael von Melas](/source/Michael_von_Melas), a field marshal for the Austrian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars
* [Mihail Melas](/source/Mihail_Melas) (1833–1897), a Greek politician and merchant
* [Vasileios Melas](/source/Vasileios_Melas) (1879–1956), an officer of the Hellenic army, brother of Pavlos Melas
* [Zafeiris Melas](/source/Zafeiris_Melas) (born 1957), a Greek pop-folk singer

==Places==
* [Melas, Kastoria](/source/Melas%2C_Kastoria), a village in Western Macedonia, Greece, formerly Statitsa, renamed for Pavlos Melas 
* [Pavlos Melas (municipality)](/source/Pavlos_Melas_(municipality)), in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece
* [Melas (Naxos)](/source/Melas_(Naxos)), a town in ancient Greece
* Melas, now [Manavgat River](/source/Manavgat_River), in Turkey
* [Melas Chasma](/source/Melas_Chasma), a canyon on Mars
* [Gulf of Melas](/source/Gulf_of_Melas), the previous name of Gulf of Saros, in Turkey

==Other uses==
* [MELAS syndrome](/source/MELAS_syndrome), one of the family of mitochondrial cytopathies
* Plural of [mela](/source/mela)

==See also==
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* [Mela (disambiguation)](/source/Mela_(disambiguation))

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