Taurus Mountains
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The mountain range under the current name was mentioned in The Histories by Polybius as Greek: Ταῦρος. Heinrich Kiepert writes in Lehrbuch der alten Geographie that the name was borrowed into Ancient
Demirkazık in Niğde Province
Relief of Western, Central, and Southeastern Taurus Mountains
Antalya with the sunset and mountains in the west
Alanya, and the surrounding mountains
Mount Judi
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Mount Judi is a mountain in Turkey. It was considered in antiquity to be Noah's apobaterion or "Place of Descent", the location where the Ark came to rest after the Great Flood, according to very earl
The mountain range, as seen from Şırnak in eastern Turkey
Cast of a rock relief of Sennacherib from the foot of the mountain, near Cizre
Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the mountain top, from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century)
In 1909, Gertrude Bell photographed the ruins of a monastery on the summit of Cudi Dagh