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Piniós

Piniós (pēnēôs') [key]or Peneus (pinē'us) [key], river, 134 mi (216 km) long, rising in the Pindus Mts., NW Greece, and flowing generally E past Tríkkala and Larissa and through the Vale of Tempe into the Aegean Sea.

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