Eurotas (mod. Iri), one of the chief rivers of the Peloponnesus, flows south through Laconia, past Sparta to the Gulf of Gythion. Its course is about fifty miles in length, but it is not navigable.
Eurotas
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 467
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