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Cilo-Sat Mountains are the eastern extension of the Taurus Mountains and are in Hakkari province; Nur Mountains (South Anatolia) Pontic Mountains (in Turkish, Kuzey Anadolu Dağları, meaning North Anatolian Mountains) range along the southern coast of the Black Sea in northern Turkey Kaçkar Mountains form the eastern end of the Pontic Mountains
Pages in category "Mountain ranges of Turkey" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
[1] [2] It is located in Turkey's Inner Aegean region, in the River Menderes valley, which has a temperate climate for most of the year. The ancient Greek city of Hierapolis was built on top of the travertine formation which is in total about 2,700 metres (8,860 ft) long, 600 m (1,970 ft) wide and 160 m (525 ft) high.
Mount Ararat is located in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, between the provinces of Ağrı and Iğdır, near the border with Iran, Armenia and Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, between the Aras and Murat rivers. [51] The Serdarbulak lava plateau, at 2600 meters of elevation, separates the peaks of Greater and Little Ararat. [52]
Some of the statues near the peak of Mount Nemrut. The mountain lies 40 km (25 mi) north of Kahta, near Adıyaman.In 62 BC, King Antiochus I of Commagene built on the mountain top a tomb-sanctuary flanked by huge statues 8–9-metre high (26–30 ft) of himself, two lions, two eagles, and various composite Greek and Iranian gods, such as Heracles-Artagnes-Ares, Zeus-Oromasdes, and Apollo ...
A mountain in Turkey shows evidence of human activity in the area around the time the Biblical flood is said to have taken place. ... the final location of Noah’s Ark on Turkey’s Mount Ararat ...
Babadağ (ancient Mount Anticragus, Ancient Greek: Ἀντίκραγος) is a mountain near Fethiye, in Muğla Province, southwest Turkey. [3] [4] The mountain has a principal summit at an elevation of 1,969 metres (6,460 ft) and a second one called "Karatepe" at an elevation of 1,400 metres (4,593 ft).
Mount Hasan (Turkish: Hasan Dağı) is a volcano in Anatolia, Turkey.It has two summits, the 3,069 metres (10,069 ft) high eastern Small Hasan Dagi and the 3,253 metres (10,673 ft) high Big Hasan Dagi, and rises about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) above the surrounding terrain.