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Büyük Menderes

Name: Büyük Menderes
Address: TR

38.2153°N 29.8281°E · Q211089

One English word in this atlas traces back to Büyük Menderes. It sits in Turkey.

All of Turkey

Pinned here

meanderverb · 16th century

Well attested

A winding path is named for a river in Anatolia.

The Maeander, now the Büyük Menderes, was famous in antiquity for its loops. Greek and Latin turned the river’s name into a word for any winding, and English meander still does that work.

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