Limonlu Çayı

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Limonlu Çayı
ancient names: Lamos, Lamus
Limonlu in the Kayacı Valley

Limonlu in the Kayacı Valley

Data
location Province of Mersin ( Turkey )
River system Limonlu Çayı
source Yüğlük Dağı
36 ° 59 '41 "  N , 33 ° 49' 12"  O
Source height approx.  2000  m
muzzle at Limonlu in the Mediterranean Coordinates: 36 ° 33 ′ 27 ″  N , 34 ° 14 ′ 51 ″  E 36 ° 33 ′ 27 ″  N , 34 ° 14 ′ 51 ″  E

length 60 km
Right tributaries Lamas Çayı (also Susama Deresi)
Communities Limonlu

The Limonlu Çayı is a river in the historic landscape of Cilicia in what is now the Mersin Province in southern Turkey .

The river has its source at Yüğlük Dağı in the Taurus Mountains and flows through deeply cut gorges to the southwest, to flow into the Mediterranean Sea at Limonlu in the Erdemli district . About halfway there comes the tributary Susama Deresi from the west .

In Limonlu, about 500 meters west of the estuary, on a flat hill on the right bank is the medieval castle Lamos Kalesi . A bridge from the late Ottoman period crosses the river below the castle ; there was probably a previous Roman building on the site. Remains of an aqueduct can be seen to the north of the place , which led water from the river to the ancient places Elaiussa Sebaste and Korykos to the west .

history

The ancient name of the river was Lamos ( Greek  Λάμος , Latinized Lamus) , the Arabic was al-Lāmis . He is mentioned as Lamos together with the coastal town of the same name, today's Limonlu, at Strabo . In ancient times, the river formed the border between the plains of Cilicia (Kilikia Pedias) in the east and the Rough Kilikien (Kilikia Tracheia) in the west. He later separated the Byzantine theme Seleukeia ( Silifke ), the border region of the empire called Kleisoura , from the Arab region east of the river. In the 9th and 10th centuries, numerous meetings between Byzantines and Muslims to exchange or buy prisoners took place near the estuary. According to Hellenkemper and Hild, the first of these meetings was already 797, according to other sources it was not until 805 during the reign of the caliph Hārūn ar-Raschīd and the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I. 3700 Arab prisoners were released within twelve days. The last exchange of prisoners took place in 946 under the rulers of Constantine VII on the Byzantine and al-Mutīʿ on the Muslim side. 2,482 Muslims of both sexes were freed, 230 remained in captivity. Later meetings did not take place on the Lamos, as it was then part of the Byzantine territory.

literature

Web links

Commons : Limonlu Çayı  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strabo, Christoph Gottlieb Groskurd: Earth description: In seventeen books: based on corrected Greek texts ... Nicolai, 1833, p. 80 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Cl. Huart: Lamas-Ṣū In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Vol. 5, Brill, Leiden, p. 647.