The Maeander is a deep river, but not very broad. The tributaries of the Maeander include the Orgyas, Marsyas, Cludrus, Lethaeus, and Gaeson, in the north and the Obrimas, Lycus, Harpasus, and a second Marsyas in the south. Near Carura it passes from Phrygia into Caria, where it flows in its tortuous course through the Maeandrian plain, and finally discharges itself in the Gulf of Icaros (an arm of the Aegean Sea), between the ancient Greek cities Priene and Myus, opposite to the Ionian city of Miletus, from which its mouth is only 10 stadia distant. South of Tripolis it receives the waters of the Lycus, whereby it becomes a river of some importance. Its whole course has a southwesterly direction on the south of the range of Mount Messogis. The Maeander was so celebrated in antiquity for its numerous windings, that its classical name 'Maeander' became, and still is, proverbial. Map of the river's mouth and the evolution of silting of Miletus Bay during Antiquity. William Martin Leake reconciles all these apparently different statements by the remark that both the Maeander and the Marsyas have their origin in the lake on Mount Aulocrene, above Celaenae, but that the issue at different parts of the mountain below the lake. Others state that the Maeander flowed out of a lake on Mount Aulocrene. According to some its sources were the same as those of the river Marsyas but this is irreconcilable with Xenophon, according to whom the sources of the two rivers were only near each other, the Marsyas rising in a royal palace. The river has its sources not far from Celaenae in Phrygia (now Dinar), where it gushed forth in a park of Cyrus. It appears earliest in the Catalog of Trojans of Homer's Iliad along with Miletus and Mycale. The Maeander was a celebrated river of Caria in Asia Minor. After passing the Adıgüzel Dam and the Cindere Dam, the river flows past Nazilli, Aydın and Söke before it drains into the Aegean Sea. The river rises in a spring near Dinar and flows to Lake Işıklı. The river was well known for its sinuous, curving pattern, and gives its name to the common term used to describe these characteristic bends in rivers. It rises in west central Turkey near Dinar before flowing west through the Büyük Menderes graben until reaching the Aegean Sea in the proximity of the ancient Ionian city Miletus. Online version at the Topos Text Project.The Büyük Menderes River (historically the Maeander or Meander, from Ancient Greek: Μαίανδρος, Maíandros Turkish: Büyük Menderes Irmağı), is a river in southwestern Turkey. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.

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