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This article is about river in Hatay Province. For river in Mersin Province, see Deliçay.

The Deli Çay ('Crazy River') is a river in southern Anatolia near today's Turkey—Syria border.

It was formerly identified with the Pinarus River, where Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia in the First Battle of Issus. But the distances measured by Alexander's bematists and observations of the local topography indicate that the Pinarus is actually the Payas River.

Notes

Nicholas G. L. Hammond, "Alexander's Charge at the Battle of Issus in 333 B.C.", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 41:4:395-406 (1992) JSTOR 4436258

v t e Rivers of Turkey by drainage basin
Black Sea	Sakarya Filyos Bartın Kızılırmak (Halys) Gök Terme Yeşilırmak Yağlıdere Aksu Gelevara Kara Dere Çoruh
Marmara	Biga Susurluk (Simav)
Aegean	Meriç (Maritsa) Tunca Karamenderes (Scamander) Bakırçay Gediz Küçük Menderes Büyük Menderes Azmak
Mediterranean Sea	Eşen Aksu Manavgat Köprüçay Kaledran Dragon Sini Soğuksu Babadıl Göksu Limonlu Alata (Sorgun) Tömük Karacaoğlan Tece Mezitli (Liparis) Efrenk (Müftü) Deliçay Berdan (Tarsus) Seyhan Ceyhan Payas Asi (Orontes) Deli Çay
Persian Gulf	Fırat (Euphrates) Dicle (Tigris) Hezil
Caspian	Aras Kura
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