Meilichos

{{Infobox river

| name = Meilichos

| image = Roman Bridge Meilixos.jpg

| image_size =

| image_caption = The Roman bridge across Meilichos in Ampelokipoi, a neighbourhood of Patras

| source1_location = Skioessa

| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = Greece

| length = approximately {{convert|10|km|abbr=on}}

| mouth_location = Gulf of Patras

| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|38.2695|21.7385|display=inline,title}}

| basin_size =

}}

Meilichos ({{Langx|el|Μείλιχος}}, {{Langx|la|Meilichus}}{{cite DGRG|title=Achaia|volume=1|pages=13}}) is a torrent in the northwestern part of Achaea, southern Greece. The river flows from a spring near Skioessa near the northern part of the Panachaiko mountain west of the ravine of Charadros to the Gulf of Patras. It passes north of Skioessa, under a viaduct of the A5 motorway, through the village Sychaina, now a neighbourhood of Patras, it empties west of the neighbourhood of Agyia.

In antiquity there was a temple of Artemis Triklaria near the river,Pausanias, Description of Greece 7.22.11 but this has not yet been found by archaeologists. Near the intersection of present-day Aretha Street and the Greek National Road 8A in the Patras neighbourhood of Ampelokipoi, a bridge from the Roman era has been excavated. It currently has a covering which protects the structure from rain.

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