Big meander
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Great meander Büyük Menderes ancient name: Meander |
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| location | Afyonkarahisar , Aydın , Denizli , Uşak ( Turkey ) | |
| River system | Big meander | |
| source | in the city of Dinar in Afyonkarahisar Province, 38 ° 4 ′ 15 ″ N , 30 ° 10 ′ 37 ″ E |
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| muzzle | near ancient Miletus in the Aegean Sea Coordinates: 37 ° 32 ′ 24 " N , 27 ° 10 ′ 8" E 37 ° 32 ′ 24 " N , 27 ° 10 ′ 8" E |
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| length | 380 km | |
| Left tributaries | Çürüksu Çayı , Akçay , Çine Çayı | |
| Right tributaries | Banaz Çayı | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Işıklı Gölü , Adıgüzel Dam , Cindere Dam | |
| Medium-sized cities | dinar | |
_in_Dinar.JPG) Source of the Great Meander (Büyük Menderes) in Dinar |
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The Meander (from Latin Maeander , from Greek Μαίανδρος ), today called Great Meander ( Turkish: Büyük Menderes ) to distinguish it from the Small Meander , the ancient Kaystros , is a river in western Asia Minor (today's Turkey ), which because of its many turns has become word-formative.
With a length of 380 km, it is the most important river in the western Anatolian region.
The Great Meander has its source in the Phrygia mountains , about halfway between the provincial capitals Uşak and Afyon . The two largest source rivers are the Banaz and the Kufi , the southern tributary has its source at Dinar , the ancient Kelainai . After their union north of the city of Denizli , the Great Meander flows west towards Aydın and flows into the Aegean Sea near the ancient city of Miletus .
In the coastal plain , which has widened a few kilometers to the sea due to the alluvial sediments since the Greek- Ionian period, the remains and temples of the cities of Priene and Didyma can be visited about 15 km north and south of the estuary . The old Magnesia lies between Söke and Aydın , and upstream at Sultanhisar are the remains of ancient Nysa . Lake Bafa , whose outlet flows into the meander about 15 km as the crow flies before its mouth, was an arm of the sea until the 4th century AD.
literature
- Marc Müllenhoff: Geoarchaeological, sedimentological and morphodynamic studies in the mouth of the Büyük Menderes (Meander), Western Turkey. Marburg Geographical Writings, 141, Marburg / Lahn 2005.
- Peter J. Thonemann: The Maeander Valley: a historical geography from antiquity to Byzantium. Cambridge 2011.
Web links
- Irrigation on the Menderes , Landsat 7 satellite image
- Research project of the University of Marburg on the origin of the mouth of the Great Meander (PDF; 1.6 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Great Meander in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)