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.
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
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