Maeander

Etymology and other names

Maeander, Madre Mindre, Bojouc Mindre; that is, the Great Mindre

Sources from old books

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Maeander, a great River in the Lesser Asia, in the Greater Phrygia. Now commonly called Madre Mindre, and Bojouc Mindre; that is, the Great Mindre; in opposition to that at Ephesus, which is called the Little Minder. It springeth from a Fountain, called by the ancient Greeks, Alocrene; and runs with so Oblique a Current, as it often seems to be returning back again into it self: making in its passage six hundred Turns, though it is no very long Course it performs. Hence one of the Ancients observes, it was the only River in the World, which returned almost back to its Fountain. Many of the Poets alluded to it in their Poems. Our Country-Man, Mr. Wheeler, who crossed it, saith; it was there sixteen Fathoms over: they pretended, it was as deep as broad, the Current was exceeding swift: he gives a Figure of it. It falls into the Archipelago, between Heraclea and Miletus, on the South of Ephesus.