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Maeander

British  
/ miːˈændə /

noun

  1. Also spelt: Meander.  ancient name of the river Menderes

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Maeander valley is especially noted for its hot springs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

Even as on Maeonian shores Maeander with winding channel turns upon himself and wanders far and wide, now here, now there.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

It is said that he was a native of Hierapolis in Phrygia, a town between the Maeander and a branch of the Maeander named the Lycus.

From A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion by Epictetus

From 80 to 50 B.C. the upper Maeander valley and all Phrygia, except the extreme north, were detached and added to Cilicia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

Eighty colonies went forth from the banks of the Maeander, and some of them were spread even to the eastern shores of the Black Sea and beyond the Pillars of Hercules to the west.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

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