Melas may refer to:
People
- Melas (mythology), a number of different characters in Greek mythology
- Melas, an Ancient Greek first name. Its most notable holders were Melas the Elder and Younger, two tyrants of Ephesus whose dynasty intermarried with the Mermnad dynasty of Lydia.
- 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)
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