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Cephissus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ661842 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cephissus (ancient Greek: Κήφισσος; ), Cephisus, Kephisos, or Kifisos may refer to:

Waterways in Greece

Cephissus (Argolis), a river in Argolis, a tributary of the Inachus River

Cephissus (Boeotia), a river in northern Boeotia

Cephissus (Athenian plain), a river in Attica flowing through the Athenian plain

Cephissus (Eleusis), a tributary of the Saronic Gulf from the Eleusinian plain

Cephissus (Salamis), a river on Salamis Island

Other

Cephissus (mythology), name of three river gods associated with the homonymous rivers in Argolis, Boeotia and Attica.

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The public source identifies “Cephissus” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cephissus, Wikimedia and disambiguation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 83-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cephissus, Wikimedia and disambiguation providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Cephissus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.