The Dalaman River (''Dalaman çayı'') or "Dalaman Stream" is a river in the
Mediterranean Region
In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin (; also known as the Mediterranean Region or sometimes Mediterranea) is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and wa ...
of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
, emptying into the
Mediterranean Sea
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on the southwestern coast of Turkey, in the
Muğla Province
Muğla Province ( tr, , ) is a province of Turkey, at the country's south-western corner, on the Aegean Sea. Its seat is Muğla, about inland, while some of Turkey's largest holiday resorts, such as Bodrum, Ölüdeniz, Marmaris and Fethiye, are ...
. The river forms much of the western border of the
Dalaman
Dalaman is a district, as well as the central town of that district, situated on the southwestern coast of Turkey, in the Muğla Province.
Dalaman Stream (''Dalaman çayı'') forms much of the western border of the district, where its neighbor ...
district, where its neighbors are Köyceğiz and
Ortaca
Ortaca () is a town and district of Muğla Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. Formerly a township depending Köyceğiz administratively, it was made into a separate district in 1987. Apart from Ortaca district center, there is one dependin ...
districts.
It was known as the River Indus in
classical antiquity
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It should not be confused with
the Indus, the great river of Asia, which was also known in antiquity.
References
Rivers of Turkey
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