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Mount Ararat

Also known as Greater Ararat, Agri Dagi, Mount Aghri, Ararat, Mount Agri

highest peak in Turkey

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Mount Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey, located in its eastern region near the borders with Armenia and Azerbaijan. It is significant in religious and cultural history, particularly in Armenian Christian tradition where it holds symbolic importance, and it has also been a subject of historical and political interest in the region.

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Vinony's link graph records 918 inbound references to Mount Ararat, and connects out to lava, NASA and Kurdish.

The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain.

Vinony files it under Five-thousanders of the Armenian Highlands, Geography of Western Armenia and Highest points of countries.

Vinony links it to 103 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Elevation: 5137
Image: 00 2399 Mount Ararat, Turkey.jpg

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Commons category: Mount Ararat
Commons gallery: Mount Ararat
topographic prominence: 3611
topographic isolation: 379.29
native label: Ağrı dağı

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Encyclopedic overview

Mount Ararat, officially Mount Ağrı, also known as Masis, is a snow- capped and dormant compound volcano in easternmost Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and the Armenian highlands with an elevation of 5,137 m (16,854 ft); Little Ararat's elevation is 3,896 m (12,782 ft). The Ararat massif is about 35 km (22 mi) wide at ground base. The first recorded efforts to reach Ararat's summit were made in the Middle Ages, and Friedrich Parrot, Khachatur Abovian, and four others made the first recorded ascent in 1829.

In Europe, the mountain has been called by the name Ararat since the Middle Ages, as it began to be identified with "mountains of Ararat" described in the Bible as the resting place of Noah's Ark, despite contention that Genesis 8:4 does not refer specifically to a Mount Ararat.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Ararat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.