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SCAMANDER

Volume 19 · 44 words · 1860 Edition

or Xanthus**, a river of the Troad, which has attained a world-wide fame by means of the poems of Homer, and now bears the name of *Bucarbash-Su*. According to the poet, it was called Xanthus by gods, and Scamander by men.

**SCANDERBEG.** See Turkey.