Little Ararat
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Little Ararat is the sixth-tallest peak and a stratovolcano in Turkey. It is a large satellite cone located on the eastern flank of the massive Mount Ararat, less than 5 mi west of Turkey’s border wit
A view of Little Ararat from Yerevan, Armenia
Mountains of Ararat
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In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. It corresponds to the ancient Assyrian term Urartu, an
Little Ararat
…Parrot and Armenian writer Khachatur Abovian climbed Little Ararat. Its eastern flank was on the Iranian side of the border until the early 1930s. Mountains of Ararat…
Depiction of Noah's Ark landing on the "mountains of Ararat", from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century)
The ark on top of Mount Ararat in Armenia, from Martin Behaim's Erdapfel (1492)
16th-century faience art depicting the ark atop Ararat