Büyük Menderes River

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Well, a few years ago, we went on a study tour of the seven churches of Revelation, which are in Turkey, and we ended up in a central southern valley of the Meander River in an area where there's a lot of cotton grown and a lot of vineyards.

Denizli is the city there, and it's kind of the center of the textile industry in Turkey.

But in this valley, there is a city right in the middle of the valley that's called Laodicea.

Now, just about five miles south of Laodicea is Mount Cadmus.

It's a 5,200-foot mountain with snow on top.

And at the base of Mount Cadmus comes out a river, the Lycras River that flows into the Meander River right where the city of Laodicea is.

This water coming out of the mountain is icy cold.

Answer six: The continuous interlocking pattern also known as the Greek key is known as [bell dings] a meander pattern.

It was named after the Meander River located in present-day Turkey, and the pattern became a prominent decorative element in ancient Greek art and architecture.

And if you don't know what it looks like, you should probably Google it.

And once you see it, you'll be like, "Oh, that design." Now you know what that design is called and the origin of the word meander.

Now, here's today's message from Pastor Skip Heitzig.

2,000 years ago in the Roman Empire, in the area of the Roman Empire known as Phrygia, what is today modern-day Turkey, in a little area known as the Lycus Valley, along the banks of the Lycus River, a tributary of the Meander River, was a little town called Colossi.

Some of the ruins are in the slide just behind me.

It was a little town that really wasn't much of a town, though at one time it had been.

Dido to Aeneas.

Thus the silver swan, when death approaches, bemoans her fate among the willows on the banks of Maeander.

Nor do I address you from a hope of being able to move you by my prayers: that the gods averse to my request forbid.

But having lost merit and fame, my honor and myself, why should I fear to lose a few dying words? You are then resolved to depart and abandon unhappy Dido.

Sekilos' song from Tralleis still shines.

Certain principles of neighborhood governance rely on the exact placement of heavy marble blocks, a phenomenon easily observed along the thirty-mile stretch of the Meander River Valley.

There, the nineteenth-century Ottoman railway from Smyrna curves southeast to clip the overgrown hills of ancient Tralleis, forming a corridor where laying modern track required digging through several strata of pulverized civic architecture.

During the construction of the Izmir to Aydin line, railroad workers unearthed a small cylindrical tombstone.

A mournful glance Sir Fopling upwards cast; 'Those eyes are made so killing!' was his last.

Thus on Maeander's flow'ry margin lies The expiring swan, and as he sings he dies.

When bold Sir Plume had drawn Clarissa down, Chloe stepp'd in, and kill'd him with a frown: She smil'd to see the doughty hero slain, But at her smile the beau reviv'd again.

Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair.