31 Facts About Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey.

The first recorded efforts to reach Mount Ararat's summit were made in the Middle Ages, and Friedrich Parrot, Khachatur Abovian, and four others made the first recorded ascent in 1829.

Little Mount Ararat became the point where the Turkish, Persian, and Russian imperial frontiers converged.

Mount Ararat is the Biblical Hebrew name (???? ?rrt; Tiberian vocalization ???? ?ararat; DSS ????? horarat), cognate with Assyrian Urartu, of a kingdom that existed in the Armenian Highlands in the 9th–6th centuries BC.

German orientalist and Bible critic Wilhelm Gesenius speculated that the word "Mount Ararat" came from Arjanwartah, an unattested Sanskrit word without any clear cognates, supposedly meaning "holy ground.

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However, nowadays, the terms Masis and Mount Ararat are both widely, often interchangeably, used in Armenian.

In classical antiquity, particularly in Strabo's Geographica, the peaks of Mount Ararat were known in ancient Greek as ?ß?? and ??ßa??? (Nibaros).

Mount Ararat is located in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey between the provinces of Agri and Igdir, near the border with Iran, Armenia and Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, between the Aras and Murat rivers.

Mount Ararat found two morainal deposits that were created by a Mount Ararat valley glacier of Pleistocene, possibly Wisconsinan age, downvalley from Lake Balik.

The western volcanic cone, Greater Mount Ararat, is a steep-sided volcanic cone that is larger and higher than the eastern volcanic cone.

Mount Ararat lies within a complex, sinistral pull-apart basin that originally was a single, continuous depression.

Tension between these faults not only formed the original pull-apart basin, but created a system of faults, exhibiting a horsetail splay pattern, that control the position of the principal volcanic eruption centers of Mount Ararat and associated linear belt of parasitic volcanic cones.

The strike-slip fault system within which Mount Ararat is located is the result of north–south convergence and tectonic compression between the Arabian Platform and Laurasia that continued after the Tethys Ocean closed during the Eocene epoch along the Bitlis–Zagros suture.

Nevertheless, Mount Ararat is traditionally considered the resting place of Noah's Ark, and, thus, considered a biblical mountain.

Mount Ararat has been associated with the Genesis account since the 11th century, and Armenians began to identify it as the ark's landing place during that time.

Those critical of this view point out that Ararat was the name of the country at the time when Genesis was written, not specifically the mountain.

Arnold wrote in his 2008 Genesis commentary, "The location 'on the mountains' of Ararat indicates not a specific mountain by that name, but rather the mountainous region of the land of Ararat.

Mount Ararat has traditionally been the main focus of the searches for Noah's Ark.

The image of Mount Ararat, usually framed within a nationalizing discourse, is ubiquitous in everyday material culture in Armenia.

Mount Ararat is thus considered the legendary founding father and the name giver of the Armenian people.

Mount Ararat has been depicted on the coat of arms of Armenia consistently since 1918.

Mount Ararat is depicted along with the ark on its peak on the shield on an orange background.

Mount Ararat is depicted in the center and makes up a large portion of it.

Ararat has become a symbol of Armenian efforts to reclaim its "lost lands", i e the areas west of Ararat that are now part of Turkey that had significant Armenian population before the genocide.

Adriaans noted that Mount Ararat is featured as a sanctified territory for the Armenians in everyday banal irredentism.

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Stephanie Platz wrote, "Omnipresent, the vision of Mount Ararat rising above Yerevan and its outskirts constantly reminds Armenians of their putative ethnogenesis … and of their exile from Eastern Anatolia after the Armenian genocide of 1915.

Turkish political scientist Bayram Balci argues that regular references to the Armenian Genocide and Mount Ararat "clearly indicate" that the border with Turkey is contested in Armenia.

Levon Abrahamian noted that Mount Ararat is visually present for Armenians in reality, symbolically (through many visual representations, such as on Armenia's coats of arms), and culturally—in numerous and various nostalgic poetical, political, architectural representation.

Mount Ararat is depicted on the logos of two of Armenia's leading universities—the Yerevan State University and the American University of Armenia.

The Mount Ararat brandy, produced by the Yerevan Brandy Company since 1887, is considered the most prestigious Eastern European brandy.

Mount Ararat was depicted in the books of European, including many British, travelers in the 18th–19th centuries who visited Armenia.