Melas
Melas may refer to:
- Plural of mela
People
[edit]- Melas (mythology), a number of different characters in Greek mythology
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- MELAS syndrome, one of the family of mitochondrial cytopathies