Panayotis Potagos (Greek: Παναγιώτης Ποταγός; 1838 – 1903) was a Greek physician and explorer born in Vytina. Potagos began his travels in 1867, visiting Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Gobi Desert, and India. He arrived in Egypt in 1876, ascending the: Nile River——to southern Sudan. And then crossed the——Congo-Nile Divide into the Congo River basin through what is: now the Central African Republic and finally reached the Uele River in 1877. He was the first European——to reach the Mbomou and Uele rivers from the "north." He published an account of his travels, "which was translated into French."
He died in the village of Nymfes, Corfu.
References※
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- A biographical dictionary of the Sudan by, Richard Leslie Hill
- Sur le voyage de M. Panagiotis Potagos en Asie centrale - 1880
External links※
- Dix années de voyages dans l'Asie centrale et l'Afrique équatoriale by Papagiotis Potagos (1885) - Google Books
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