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Encyclopedia > Mountains of Ararat

In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat are the place where Noah's ark comes to rest on dry earth. It is believed as truthful and historical by most of Abrahamic religion; others question or doubt the historicity of the Noah's ark story and whether the mountains of Ararat associated with the story ever existed. Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις, having the meanings of birth, creation, cause, beginning, source and origin) is the first book of the Torah (five books of Moses) and hence the first book of the Tanakh, part of the Hebrew Bible; it is also the first book of the Christian Old Testament. ... This concerns the boat described in the Hebrew scriptures. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Western religion. ...


Most Abrahamic traditions identify the mountains of Ararat with Mount Ararat in Asia Minor, and embrace Urartu — an ancient culture in the same region with a name similar to Ararat's — as ancient correspondence to the Biblical Ararat. Mount Ararat has the distinction of holding this tradition in its name and among its surrounding cultures for centuries, and is also geographically within ancient Urartu, giving it the most legitimate potential claim as the Biblical Ararat; however one must bear in mind that the Ark could have come to rest anywhere in any of the mountain ranges associated with Urartu. Other potential Ararat candidates have been proposed over the millennia at locales as widely distributed as Ethiopia and Ireland. Mount Ararat (Turkish AÄŸrı Dağı; Armenian Ô±Ö€Õ¡Ö€Õ¡Õ¿; Kurdish Çîyayê Agirî; Persian آرارات Ararat; Hebrew אררט, Standard Hebrew Ararat, Tiberian Hebrew ), the tallest peak in modern Turkey, is a snow-capped dormant volcanic cone, located in the far northeast of Turkey, 16 km west of Iran and 32 km south of Armenia. ... Anatolia (Greek: ανατολη anatole, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey. ... Urartu map Urartu (a. ...


They are located in parts of Turkey, Armenia, and Iran.


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Mount Ararat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (633 words)
Mount Ararat (Turkish Ağrı Dağı; Armenian Արարատ; Kurdish Çîyayê Agirî; Persian آرارات Ararat; Hebrew אררט, Standard Hebrew Ararat, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĂrārāṭ), the tallest peak in modern Turkey, is a snow-capped dormant volcanic cone, located in the far northeast of Turkey, 16 km west of Iran and 32 km south of Armenia.
The last activity on the mountain was a major earthquake in July 1840 centered around the Ahora Gorge, a northeast trending chasm that drops 1,825 metres (6,000 ft) from the top of the mountain.
The Ararat anomaly is an interesting feature located on the northwest corner of the Western Plateau of Mount Ararat (approximately 39°42′10″N, 44°16′30″E) at about 15,500 feet (4,724 meters), some 2.2 kilometers west of the 16,854 feet (5,137 metres) summit, on the edge of what appears from the photographs to be a steep downward slope.
Mountains of Ararat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (168 words)
In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat are the place where Noah's ark comes to rest on dry earth.
It is believed as truthful and historical by most of Abrahamic religion; others question or doubt the historicity of the Noah's ark story and whether the mountains of Ararat associated with the story ever existed.
Most Abrahamic traditions identify the mountains of Ararat with Mount Ararat in Asia Minor, and embrace Urartu — an ancient culture in the same region with a name similar to Ararat's — as ancient correspondence to the Biblical Ararat.
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