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  2. Mount Nemrut - Wikipedia

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    Mount Nemrut or Nemrud (Turkish: Nemrut Dağı; Kurdish: Çiyayê Nemrûdê,Sorani Kurdish: چیای نەمروت; Armenian: Նեմրութ լեռ; Greek: Όρος Νεμρούτ) is a 2,134-metre-high (7,001 ft) mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

  3. Nimrod - Wikipedia

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    Pieter Bruegel's The Tower of Babel depicts a traditional Nimrod inspecting stonemasons.. The first biblical mention of Nimrod is in the Generations of Noah. [6] He is described as the son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and great-grandson of Noah; and as "a mighty one in the earth" and "a mighty hunter before the Lord".

  4. Antiochus I of Commagene - Wikipedia

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    Statues of gods and the pyramid-like tomb-sanctuary of King Antiochus Theos of Commagene rising behind, atop Mount Nemrut Head of Antiochus atop Mount Nemrut. Antiochus is famous for building the impressive religious sanctuary of Mount Nemrut. When Antiochus reigned as king he was creating a royal cult for himself and preparing to be worshipped ...

  5. Commagene - Wikipedia

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    (Mt Nemrut, 1st century BC) Commagene was originally a small Syro-Hittite kingdom, [26] located in modern south-central Turkey, with its capital at Samosata (modern Samsat, near the Euphrates). It was first mentioned in Assyrian texts as Kummuhu, which was normally an ally of Assyria, but eventually annexed as a province in 708 BC under Sargon II.

  6. Nimrod Castle - Wikipedia

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    Nimrod Fortress. The Nimrod Fortress or Nimrod Castle (Arabic: قلعة الصبيبة Qal'at al-Subeiba, "Castle of the Large Cliff", later Qal'at Namrud, "Nimrod's Castle"; Hebrew: מבצר נמרוד, Mivtzar Nimrod, "Nimrod's Fortress") is a castle built by the Ayyubids and greatly enlarged by the Mamluks, situated on the southern slopes of Mount Hermon, on a ridge rising about 800 m (2600 ...

  7. Category:Nimrod - Wikipedia

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  8. Mount Nemrud - Wikipedia

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  9. Mountains of Ararat - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the "mountains of Ararat", from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century). In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew הָרֵי אֲרָרָט ‎, Tiberian hārê ’Ǎrārāṭ, Septuagint: τὰ ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ) [1] is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. [2]