Maeander
Maeander , ancient name of the Büyük Menderes River, c.250 mi (400 km) long, W Turkey. It rises in three branches W of Afyonkarahisar and flows generally W into the Aegean Sea. Its valley is extremely fertile. Its winding and wandering course gave rise to the word meander.
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Büyük Menderes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
river, Turkey: see Maeander .
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Menderes
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
Menderes ( Büyük Menderes Nehri ), Turkey Maeander A river called the Big Menderes River from büyük ‘big’ and nehri ‘river’. The Turkish menderes...
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Caria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, ancient region of SW Asia Minor, S of the Maeander River, which separated it from Lydia. The territory is in present SW Asian Turkey. The Carians were probably a native people, but...
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Priene
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, ancient Ionian city of W Asia Minor, near the mouth of the Maeander (now Menderes) River. It was rebuilt in the 4th cent. BC and was the site of a temple of Athena Polias. Carefully planned, it is an extremely well-preserved Greek city of this period.
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Venus de Milo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...A plinth (now lost) found with the statue was signed ‘… andros [Alexandros or Agasandros] of Antioch on the Maeander’, but nothing is known of the sculptor. Originally the statue was thought to date from the Classical age of Greek sculpture...
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