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Istros

The river god of the Ister river.

Istros is one of the many sons of Tethys and Okeanos (Ocean); Ister is the ancient Greek name for the Danube River which is the major river of eastern Europe; it flows 1,750 miles (2,816 kilometers) from the Black Forest eastward to the Euxine (Black Sea).

Zeus gave the Rivers, Apollon and the Okeanids the special obligation of having the young in their keeping.

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