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Mezitli River (''Liparis'' of the antiquity) is a rivulet in Mezitli governor's page
But presently the valley is a center of citrus and pomegranate horticulture.
Mezitli River (''Liparis'' of the antiquity) is a rivulet in Mersin Province
Mersin Province ( tr, ), formerly İçel Province ( tr, ), is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital and the biggest city in the province is Mersin, which is composed of f ...
, Turkey
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The river flows in the mid-southern portion of the Toros Mountains
The Taurus Mountains ( Turkish: ''Toros Dağları'' or ''Toroslar'') are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, separating the Mediterranean coastal region from the central Anatolian Plateau. The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir ...
from north to south. It is a short river and the birds flight distance between the headwaters and the mouth is about . Its drainage basin is and during the rainy seasons the length may increase by the contributions of irregular-flow tributaries. Although the river is small it had formed a valley of its own. The villages of Uzunkaş, Turunçlu, Karahacılı and Bozön are in the valley. It flows to Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ...
in Mersin ( Mezitli Municipality) at . In his book titled ''Voyage Dans La Cilicie et Dans Les Montagnes Du Taurus'' in 1853, the French Orientalist Charles-Victor Langlois
Charles-Victor Langlois (May 26, 1863, in Rouen – June 25, 1929, in Paris) was a French historian, archivist and paleographer, who specialized in the study of the Middle Ages and was a lecturer at the Sorbonne, where he taught paleography, bibli ...
wrote that there were brier roses, laurels and grape plants in the valley.But presently the valley is a center of citrus and pomegranate horticulture.
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