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
The Ruins of Athens is the Turkish March, a theme that even many who are not avid classical music listeners are familiar with. The overture and the Turkish March are often performed separately, and the other pieces of this set are not often heard. Another of Beethoven's compositions, Six variations on an original theme, Op. 76, uses the Turkish March as its theme. The music for "The Ruins of Athens" was reworked in 1924 by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In 1852 Franz Liszt composed a "Fantasie über Motive aus Beethovens Ruinen von Athen" ("Fantasia on" [motives from Beethoven's] "Ruins of Athens", S.122),