Terme River

The Thermodon ( Θερμώδων ancient Greek ) In Greek mythology, a river of the Amazons. Today's Turkish name is Terme Çay, it flows about 50 km east of the coastal town of Samsun in the Black Sea.

In ancient Greek myths of Thermodon was not like any other river on Earth: deep in the mountains sprung from a single source, it was divided into many smaller arms and soon poured in 96 estuaries into the sea. At its widest mouth of the Amazons should live. The area around the river is quite finished yet today, surrounded to the south and east of irrepressible mountains. In the West, the wide river Yeşilırmak forms a natural border. The coastal areas in the north bordering the Black Sea; the strong marshy area forms a natural barrier to potential enemies.

In the Argonauts, the heroes venture on the way to Colchis not to invest in Asia Minor, at the mouth of Thermodon. The Greek historian Strabo reported towards the end of the 1st century BC in its geography, one of the many start-ups of the Amazons, the city Themiskyra Thermodon river in the Pontic region in northeast Asia Minor was. The historian Pliny and the poet Apollonius of Rhodes mention an "Amazon Mountain" ( Amazonius mons ), past flowed at the foot of the Thermodon. In the 19th century it was called a mountain in the area, " Mason Dagh ".