Buldan & Tripolis

Have you ever imagined that a river could give a word to all the languages of the world? The Büyük Menderes, known in antiquity as the Maiandros, winds and twists so much that the ancients named everything winding after it; the looping course that English today calls a “meander”, and we call a “menderes”, takes its name from this river. At one end of our frame lies the valley of this very river; at the other, a town long used to the clatter of the shuttle: Buldan…