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
Out of the Ruins music became the basis of Nyman's "String Quartet No. 3", which in turn became the basis of the score for "Carrington". It also appeared in part in "À la folie", in unreleased music from "Practical Magic", and in "The End of the Affair" and "The Claim". Out of the Ruins Out of the Ruins is a choral work by Michael Nyman for an eponymous BBC documentary by Agnieszka Piotrowska in commemorating the first anniversary of the 1988 Spitak earthquake in Armenia 7 December 1988, which aired on the BBC's "40 Minutes". The texts are from Grigor Narekatsi's "Book of Lamentations".