Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat (Turkish: Ağrı Dağı; Armenian: Արարատ; Kurdish: Grîdax‎ or Çiyayê Agirî) is the tallest peak in the Armenian Highlands and modern-day Turkey. The mountain is always capped with snow, and it is a dormant volcano.

Satellite picture of Mount Ararat
Elevation	5,137 metres (16,854 ft), see section
Prominence	3,611 m ranked 48th
Location
Location	Iğdır Province, Turkey
Geology
Type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	1840

It is in Iğdır Province, near the northeast corner of Turkey, 16 km west of Iran and 32 km south of the Armenian border.

History

The people and area who lived in this area was the Armenian kingdom of Ararat (in Assyrian: Urartu). Armenians lived here for nearly 3000 years. In the 16th century the mountain became part of the border between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid dynasty of Persia. Later it was the border of Russia. In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne put Ararat in the administration of Turkey. It is a national symbol of Armenia and an object of irredentism.

Gallery

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  Ararat, Climbing route at 4,700m

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  Ararat, View on snow covered top from 4,900m

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  Ararat, from 2,700m

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  Ararat, from a village

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  Ararat, View with truck driving mountiners

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  Ararat from Ararat plain

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  Ararat, from a Western Armenia perspective

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  Khor Virap monastery in front of Mount Ararat

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  Yerevan, Armenia with Mount Ararat

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  Yerevan, Armenia with Mount Ararat in the background

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  Ararat at sunset

Mount Ararat Media

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  Mount Ararat and the Yerevan skyline in spring. The Opera house is visible in the bottom right.

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  View from the Araratian plain near the city of Artashat, Armenia.

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  Closeup of the large peak of Mount Ararat, as viewed from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

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  Closeup of the lesser peak of Mount Ararat, as seen from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

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  Ararat Mountain, Dogubayazit, Turkey*981122 (February 11, 2020) Photo by: Safa Daneshvar

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  Muntele Ararat 3D. Imagine realizata cu date SRTM furnizate liber de NASA.

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  Paleogeography of the early Oligocene

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  Tectonic map of the Mediterranean and surrounding mountain ranges

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  A detail from "Map of the Holy Land with Armenia" from Chronica Majora (ca. 1240–1253) by Matthew Paris showing "the highest mountains of Armenia" (montes Armeniae altissimi) with Noah's Ark balanced on its two peaks.