Tapureli ruins Tapureli ruins Tapureli ruins are in Mersin Province, Turkey. Limonlu River is a small river in Erdemli district of Mersin Province. It was named "Lamos River" in the antiquity and it was usually taken as the borderline between "Cilicia Trachaea" and "Cilicia Pedias". Tapureli ruins are situated on a plateau which overlooks the canyon of the river at about . The ruins are named after the Turkmen village about north east of the ruins. The altitude of the ruins which are embosomed by the dense forestry is . The distance to Erdemli is and to Mersin is The original settlement
Ralph T. Troy the state government, signed by Governor Edwin Edwards. Citing family financial obligations, Troy did not seek reelection in 1976, when he was succeeded by the more conservative Jack Howard, whom Troy had unseated four years earlier. But Howard would not complete his final term. Under Troy, voters rejected a plan to establish the since approved mayor-council form of municipal government. Troy had then argued that his city "has just got to face up that we need a more modern and responsive form of government than that under which we are operating now ... There is waste because of needless duplication