Melas

Melas may refer to:

People

• Melas (mythology), a number of different characters in Greek mythology
• Melas the Elder and Younger (7th-6th century BC), two tyrants of Ephesus whose dynasty intermarried with the Mermnad Dynasty of Lydia. Melas the Elder was a brother in law of Gyges and Melas the Younger was the son in law of Alyattes
• 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

• All pages with titles beginning with Melas
• All pages with titles containing Melas
• Mela (disambiguation)