Karamenderes River

It flows west from Mount Ida and empties into the Aegean Sea near the Troy Historical National Park.

He also says that an herb "like a vetch" grows in the river which bears a seed pod that rattles when ripe, and whoever possesses this plant "fears no apparition nor the sight of any God.

[5] Homer states that the river had two sources close to the city of Troy, one sending forth hot water and the other cold, and that near these springs the Trojan women used to wash their clothes.

[9] Although Homer describes the river as large and deep, Herodotus states that its waters were not sufficient to afford drink to the army of Xerxes I.

It was from this circumstance, that, even before its junction with the Simoeis, a canal was dug, which flowed in a western direction into the sea, south of Sigeum, so that the two rivers joined each other only at times when their waters were high.