Nemrut
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Key facts
- Elevation
- 2,948 m (9,672 ft)
- Coordinates
- 38°37′10″N 42°14′28″E / 38.61944°N 42.24111°E / 38.61944; 42.24111
- Parent range
- Armenian Highlands
- Mountain type
- Stratovolcano
- Last eruption
- October 1650
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Kâhta
- Elevation
- 3050
- Image
- Nemrut Vulcano.jpg
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- native label
- Nemrut Dağı
- different from
- Mount Nemrut
- Commons category
- Nemrut Volcano
- mountain range
- Armenian Highlands
- topographic prominence
- 1250
- heritage designation
- Important Bird Area
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Encyclopedic overview
Nemrut (Turkish: Nemrut Dağı, Armenian: Սարակն Sarakn, "Mountain spring", Armenian pronunciation: [sɑˈɾɑkən], Kurdish: Çiyayê Nemrudê) is a dormant volcano in Tatvan district, Bitlis province, Eastern Turkey, close to Lake Van. The volcano is named after King Nimrod who is said to have ruled this area in about 2100 BC.
There is Lake Nemrut in the crater of the mountain. The most powerful eruptions of Nemrut occurred in the Pleistocene. Many small eruptions occurred during the Holocene, the last in 1650. The top of the volcano is a large caldera hosting three crater lakes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nemrut” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.