Great Menderes River
The 763rd longest river in the world
The Büyük Menderes River ("Great Meander", historically the Maeander or Meander, from Ancient, Maíandros, Büyük Menderes Irmağı), is a river in southwestern Turkey. 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. The river was well known for its sinuous, curving pattern, and gives its name to the common term, (meander), used to describe these characteristic bends in rivers.
Flows through: Turkey.
River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.