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.

File:Mount Ararat and the Yerevan skyline in spring (50mm).jpg Little Ararat (left) and Greater Ararat (right); View from Yerevan, Armenia
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. Although lying outside the borders of modern Armenia, the mountain is the principal national symbol of Armenia and has historically been considered a sacred mountain by Armenians. It has featured prominently in Armenian literature and art and is an icon for Armenian irredentism. It is depicted on the coat of arms of Armenia along with Noah's Ark.

History

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. In 1828 it became the border of the Russian Empire. In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne put Ararat in the administration of Turkey. It remains a national symbol of Armenia. It was also part of the short-lived Kurdish Republic of Ararat.

Gallery

• Ararat, Climbing route at 4,700m

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

• Arar dalj5.jpg

  Ararat, from 2,700m

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  Ararat, from a village

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  Ararat, View with truck driving mountaineers

• Mount Ararat 2, Ararat Plain, Armenia.jpg

  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

• Yerewan with Ararat.jpg

  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

• Mount Ararat and the Araratian plain (cropped).jpg

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

• Closeup of large peak of Mount Ararat.jpg

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

• Closeup of Lesser Ararat from Yerevan.jpg

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

• 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 southern Europe, Mediterranean and the Near East, showing tectonic structures of the western Alpide mountain belt

• Martin Behaim's Erdpfel,1492 (Reproduction) Ararat in Armenia with Noah's Ark.jpg

  Ararat and Noah's ark on the Erdapfel by Martin Behaim, c. 1490.

• Chardin Ararat 1686.jpg

  Mount Ararat with Noah's Ark and Saint Gayane Church