Menzelet Dam

Can a river fall in love? The ancient name of the Ceyhan is Pyramos, and that name recalls a love story. Pyramus and Thisbe, whose tale Ovid tells in the ‘Metamorphoses’, are two young lovers kept apart by their families who in the end die because of a misunderstanding. According to one legend, after death the lovers were turned into a river and a spring in Cilicia, flowing into each other forever…