Nur Mountains
Sign in to saveAlso known as Amanus, Nur Dağları, Amanos Dağları, Gavur, Gâvur Dağları
mountain range in Turkey
Key facts
- Peak
- Bozdağ Dağı
- Elevation
- 2,240 m (7,350 ft)
- Native name
- Nur Dağları ( Turkish )
- Country
- Turkey
- Province
- Hatay
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain range
- Part of
- Great Rift Valley
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Hatay Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Elevation
- 2262
- Image
- View of Nur Mountains.jpg
- Length
- 180
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- Commons category
- Nur Mountains
- mountain range
- Anti-Taurus Mountains
- heritage designation
- Important Bird Area
- native label
- Nur Dağları
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Encyclopedic overview
Amanus Mountains (old name of today's Nur Mountains), southern part was between the Gulf of Issus and Antioch Promenade of İskenderun (old name: Alexandria of Cilicia) seeing the Nur Mountains (old name: Amanus) in the background.
The Nur Mountains (Turkish: Nur Dağları, "Mountains of Holy Light"), formerly known as Alma-Dağ, the ancient Mount Amanus (Ancient Greek: Ἄμᾱνος), medieval Black Mountain, or Jabal al-Lukkam in Arabic, is a mountain range in the Hatay Province of south-central Turkey. It begins south of the Taurus Mountains and the Ceyhan river, runs roughly parallel to the Gulf of İskenderun, and ends on the Mediterranean coast between the Gulf of İskenderun and the Orontes (Asi) river mouth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nur Mountains” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.