"your father’s home."" The first lines of Paruyr Sevak's 1961 poem ""We Are Few..."" () read: ""We are few, but they say of us we are Armenians. / We do not think ourselves superior to anyone. / Clearly we shall have to accept / That we, and only we, have an Ararat"" In one short poem Silva Kaputikyan compares Armenia to an ""ancient rock-carved fortress"", the towers of which are Ararat and Aragats. Mount Ararat Mount Ararat ( ; ; , ""Masis"" and Արարատ, ""Ararat"") is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey. It consists"
"Mount Ararat (Pennsylvania) Mount Ararat is a mountain located in the Pennsylvania villages of Belmont Corners and Orson. Its summit, which is in Orson, is the highest point in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, and one of the higher points in eastern Pennsylvania. Mount Ararat is located in the Glaciated Low Plateaus geological section of Pennsylvania. This section is characterized with low rolling hills and modest relief. This summit is of low relief but stands as a peak above the countryside. The west and north sides of Mount Ararat drain into the East Branch of the Lackawanna River, thence into the Susquehanna"
"River, and into Chesapeake Bay. The east side of Ararat drains into the West Branch of the Lackawaxen River, thence into the Delaware River, and into Delaware Bay. Mount Ararat (Pennsylvania) Mount Ararat is a mountain located in the Pennsylvania villages of Belmont Corners and Orson. Its summit, which is in Orson, is the highest point in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, and one of the higher points in eastern Pennsylvania. Mount Ararat is located in the Glaciated Low Plateaus geological section of Pennsylvania. This section is characterized with low rolling hills and modest relief. This summit is of low relief but"
"1972, it became a city of Republican subordination. After the independence of Armenia, Ararat was included within the Ararat Province, formed through the merger of Masis, Artashat and Ararat raions of the Armenian SSR, as per the 1995 administrative divisions law of Armenia. Ararat is situated at the east of the central part of modern-day Armenia, occupying the southeastern part of the Ararat plain, only 7 km east of Araks river on the Armenia-Turkey border. Historically, the current territory of the town was part of the ""Vostan Hayots"" canton of Ayrarat province of Ancient Armenia. At an approximate height of"
"sea level at Mount Aragats, and no point is below above sea level. Average elevation of the country area is 10th highest in the world. Mount Ararat, which was historically part of Armenia, is the highest mountain in the region. Now located in Turkey, but clearly visible from Armenia, it is regarded by the Armenians as a symbol of their land. Because of this, the mountain is present on the Armenian national emblem today. The climate in Armenia is markedly highland continental. Summers are hot, dry and sunny, lasting from June to mid-September. The temperature fluctuates between . However, the"
"Mount Ararat came under Russian control by the terms of the Treaty of Turkmenchay. Parrot felt that the conditions were now right to reach the peak of the mountain. With a team of science and medical students, Parrot left Dorpat in April 1829 and traveled south to Russian Transcaucasia and Armenia to climb Ararat. The project received full approval from Tsar Nicholas I, who provided the expedition with a military escort. On the way to Russian Armenia, Parrot and his team split into two parts. Most of the team traveled to Mozdok, while Parrot, Maximilian Behaghel von Adlerskron, and the"
"F.C. Ararat Tehran FC Ararat () is an Armenian diaspora football team based in Tehran, Iran who play in the Tehran Province League. Ararat football club is the football club of the multisport Ararat Club in Iran. Ararat has a policy of signing only players who have an Armenian heritage. The club was established in 1944 by a group of Armenian-Iranians. They named the club after the famous mountain of the same name. The club was run by an Armenian athletic organization and was one of few clubs in Iranian football to have its own private stadium and training facilities."
"including an indoor sports hall, indoor swimming pool, billiards saloon, mini-football ground and other facilities. The retired Olympic cyclist Arsen Ghazaryan is a native of Ararat. Ararat is twinned with Ararat, Armenia Ararat (), is a town and urban municipal community in the Ararat Province of Armenia, located on the Yerevan-Nakhchivan highway, southeast of the capital Yerevan and south of the provincial centre Artashat. In the 2011 census, the population of the town was 20,235. As per the 2016 official estimate, the population is around 20,300. The town was officially named Ararat in 1947 after the nearby biblical Mountains of"
"H. F. B. Lynch (1893)—climbed the mountain. The first winter climb was by Turkish alpinist Bozkurt Ergör, the former president of the Turkish Mountaineering Federation, who climbed the peak on 21 February 1970. According to the fourth verse of the eighth chapter of the Book of Genesis (Genesis 8:4), following a flood, Noah's Ark landed on the ""mountains of Ararat"" (Biblical , ""hare ararat""). Most historians and Bible scholars agree that ""Ararat"" is the Hebrew name of Urartu, the geographic predecessor of Armenia and referred to the wider region at the time and not the mountain today known as Ararat."
"Mount Aragats Mount Aragats (, ; formerly Ալագյազ, ""Alagyaz"" via ) is an isolated four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia. Its northern summit, at above sea level, is the highest point of the Lesser Caucasus and Armenia. It is also one of the highest points in the Armenian Highlands. The Aragats massif is surrounded by Kasagh River on the east, Akhurian River on the west, Ararat plain on the south and Shirak plain on the north. The circumference of the massif is around , and covers an area of or around of Armenia's total area. of the massif is located above"
"Soviet Union. After a visit to Armenia in 1999, Westerman decided to climb Mount Ararat. His thoughts about this Biblical mountain, where – according to Christian, Muslim and Jewish beliefs – Noah's Ark landed, the memories and re-evaluation of his religious childhood, and his impressions of Armenia and Turkey are the main subjects of the book ""Ararat: In search of the mythical mountain"" (translated into English by Sam Garrett in 2008). Currently, he is a full-time writer based in Amsterdam. Frank Westerman Frank Martin Westerman (born 13 November 1964) is a Dutch writer and a former journalist. He studied tropical"
"of Mount Ararat brought objections from Turkey because the mountain is part of its territory. The Kremlin retorted that, although the Turkish symbol was the crescent, surely it did not mean that they laid claim to the moon. The Soviet Union broke apart in 1991 and Armenia thus became an independent republic. In 1992, a slightly modified version of the coat of arms of the first republic was adopted and has remained in place ever since. The shield itself consists of many components. In the center is a depiction of the Mount Ararat with Noah's Ark sitting atop it. According"
"Mount Arafat Mount Arafat or Mount Arafah ( transliterated ""Jabal ‘Arafāt"") is a granite hill east of Mecca in the plain of Arafat. Arafat is a plain about southeast of Mecca. Mount Arafat reaches about in height and is also known as the Mount of Mercy (""Jabal ar-Rahmah""). According to Islamic tradition, the hill is the place where the Islamic prophet Muhammed stood and delivered the Farewell Sermon to the Muslims who had accompanied him for the Hajj towards the end of his life. Muslims also say that it is also the place where Adam and Eve reunited on earth"
"Friedrich Parrot Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot (25 October 179115 January 1841) was a Baltic German naturalist, explorer, and mountaineer, who lived and worked in Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia) in what was then the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. A pioneer of Russian and Estonian scientific mountaineering, he is best known for leading the first expedition to the summit of Mount Ararat in recorded history. Born in Karlsruhe, in the Margraviate of Baden, Parrot was the son of Georg Friedrich Parrot, the first rector of the University of Dorpat (today the University of Tartu) and a close friend"
"Ararat, Armenia Ararat (), is a town and urban municipal community in the Ararat Province of Armenia, located on the Yerevan-Nakhchivan highway, southeast of the capital Yerevan and south of the provincial centre Artashat. In the 2011 census, the population of the town was 20,235. As per the 2016 official estimate, the population is around 20,300. The town was officially named Ararat in 1947 after the nearby biblical Mountains of Ararat. Ararat (; , ""Ararat""; Western Armenian: ""Ararad""). The foundation of the Ararat cement was launched in 1927 within Soviet Armenia, accompanied with the construction of few residential apartments to"
"The flood waters eventually subside, and Noah's ark comes to rest on Mount Ararat. A large area of Mount Ararat was in Armenian territory, as the border between Armenia and Turkey ran over the top of the mountain. Armenia was divided between the Soviet Union and Turkey following World War 1, and Mt. Ararat became part of Turkey—but it is still an important part of the national identity. The symbolic figure of Mount Ararat is still in the Coat of arms of Armenia. The coin´s obverse of this exclusive coin edition depicts the Armenian Coat of Arms. Underneath is the"
"Ararat (film) Ararat is a 2002 Canadian-French historical-drama film written and directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Charles Aznavour, Christopher Plummer, David Alpay, Arsinée Khanjian, Eric Bogosian, Bruce Greenwood and Elias Koteas. It is about a family and film crew in Toronto working on a film based loosely on the 1915 defense of Van during the Armenian Genocide. In addition to exploring the human impact of that specific historical event, ""Ararat"" examines the nature of truth and its representation through art. The Genocide is disputed by the Government of Turkey, an issue that partially inspired and is explored in the"
"to an ""ancient rock-carved fortress"", the towers of which are Mount Aragats and Mount Ararat. Numerous artists have painted Aragats. Some examples of paintings of Aragats kept at the National Gallery of Armenia include: Mount Aragats Mount Aragats (, ; formerly Ալագյազ, ""Alagyaz"" via ) is an isolated four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia. Its northern summit, at above sea level, is the highest point of the Lesser Caucasus and Armenia. It is also one of the highest points in the Armenian Highlands. The Aragats massif is surrounded by Kasagh River on the east, Akhurian River on the west, Ararat plain"
"Ararat, Victoria Ararat is a city in south-west Victoria, Australia, about west of Melbourne, on the Western Highway on the eastern slopes of the Ararat Hills and Cemetery Creek valley between Victoria's Western District and the Wimmera. Its urban population according to 2016 census is 8,297 and services the region of 11,752 residents across the Rural City's boundaries It is the largest settlement in the Rural City of Ararat local government area and is the administrative centre. The discovery of gold in 1857 during the Victorian gold rush transformed it into a boomtown which continued to prosper until the turn"
"variations of ""Armenia"" and ""Urartu"". In the trilingual Behistun Inscription, carved in 521 or 520 BC by the order of Darius I, the country referred to as ""Urartu"" in Akkadian is called ""Arminiya"" in Old Persian and ""Harminuia"" in the Elamite language. The mentions of Urartu in the Books of Kings and Isaiah of the Bible were translated as ""Armenia"" in the Septuagint. Some English language translations, including the King James Version follow the Septuagint translation of Urartu as Armenia. The identification of the biblical ""mountains of Ararat"" with the Mt. Ararat () is a modern identification based on postbiblical"
"Mount Arayat Mount Arayat is an inactive basaltic volcano on Luzon Island, Philippines, rising to a height of . The volcano has a breached crater on its northwest side with a smaller andesitic dome in the collapse amphitheater. There are no historical records of eruption in Arayat and the only dated rocks are 0.53 and 0.65 million-year-old basalts predating the collapse and formation of the lava dome. The mountain is located in a flat agricultural region at . The southern half of the mountain lies within the municipality of Arayat, Pampanga, while the north half and the mountain summit lies"
"higher, at an elevation of . After two failed attempts, they reached the summit on their third attempt at 3:15 p.m. on October 9, 1829. The group included Parrot, Abovian, two Russian soldiers – Aleksei Zdorovenko and Matvei Chalpanov – and two Armenian Akhuri villagers – Hovhannes Aivazian and Murad Poghosian. Parrot measured the elevation at using a mercury barometer. This was not only the first recorded ascent of Ararat, but also the second highest elevation climbed by man up to that date outside of Mount Licancabur in the Chilean Andes. Abovian dug a hole in the ice and erected"
"Mountains of Ararat In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew , Tiberian """", Septuagint: ) is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. It corresponds to ancient Assyrian Urartu, an exonym for the Kingdom of Van. Citing historians Berossus, Hieronymus the Egyptian, Mnaseas, and Nicolaus of Damascus, Josephus writes in his ""Antiquities of the Jews"" that ""[t]he ark rested on the top of a certain mountain in Armenia, . . . over Minyas, called Baris."" Likewise, in the Latin Vulgate, Jerome translates Genesis 8:4 to"
"Rural City of Ararat The Rural City of Ararat is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of and at the 2016 Census had a population of over 11,000. It includes the towns of Ararat, Armstrong, Dunneworthy, Lake Bolac, Moyston, Pomonal, Streatham, Tatyoon, Wickliffe and Willaura. It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the City of Ararat, Shire of Ararat and parts of the Shire of Mortlake and Shire of Stawell. The Rural City is governed and administered by the Ararat Rural City Council; its seat"
"and end of the season, and for several days during the middle of the season. The ""shamal"" is a summer northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states (including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait), often strong during the day, but decreasing at night. This weather effect occurs anywhere from once to several times a year. Western Asia contains large areas of mountainous terrain. The Anatolian Plateau is sandwiched between the Pontus Mountains and Taurus Mountains in Turkey. Mount Ararat in Turkey rises to 5,137 meters. The Zagros Mountains are located in Iran, in areas along its border with Iraq."
"expedition to climb Mount Ararat. Accompanied by Armenian writer Khachatur Abovian and four others, Parrot made the first ascent of Ararat in recorded history from the Armenian monastery of St. Hakob in Akhuri (modern Yenidoğan). After the Russian Revolution, Surmali was briefly governed by the First Republic of Armenia. However, the district was later ceded to Turkey by the Soviet Union in the treaties of Moscow and Kars. According to the Russian family lists accounts from 1886, of the total 71,066 inhabitants of the district, 34,351 were Tatars (modern Azerbaijanis; 48.3%), 22,096 Armenians (31.1%), and 14,619 Kurds (20.6%). According to"
"derives from the Hebrew name of the ancient kingdom of Urartu. Ararat has an area of 2,090 km² (7% of total area of Armenia). It occupies the east of the central part of modern-day Armenia. From the north, it has borders with Armavir Province, Yerevan and Kotayk Province. From the east, its bordered by Gegharkunik and Vayots Dzor. Iğdır Province of Turkey and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic respectively form the western and southern borders of the province. Historically, the current territory of the province mainly occupies the ""Vostan Hayots"" canton of Ayrarat province of Ancient Armenia. The province is located"
"resources of Armenia. Above Mount Ararat is the hammer and sickle with the red star behind it. Printed on the outer rim are the words ""Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic"" in Armenian (Հայկական Սովետական Սոցիալիստական Հանրապետություն ""Haykakan Sovetakan Sots’ialistakan Hanrapetut’yun"") while in the center outer rim is the motto ""Workers of the world, unite!"" in both Armenian (Պրոլետարներ բոլոր երկրների, միացե՜ք ""Proletarner bolor yerkrneri, miats’ek’!"") and Russian (Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! ""Proletarii vsekh stran, soyedinyaytes′!""). The inclusion of Mount Ararat brought objections from Turkey because the mountain is part of its territory. The Kremlin retorted that although the Turkish symbol was"
"is separated from Anatolia (the Asian portion of Turkey) by the Bosphorus (), the Sea of Marmara (), and the Dardanelles (); which collectively form the strategic Turkish Straits that link the Aegean Sea with the Black Sea. Mount Ararat, Turkey's tallest mountain with an elevation of , is the legendary landing place of Noah's Ark and is located in the far eastern portion of the country. Land boundaries: ""border countries:"" Greece , Bulgaria , Georgia , Armenia , Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan) , Iran , Iraq , Syria . Coastline: ""Maritime claims:"" ""exclusive economic zone:"" in the Black Sea only: to"
"Sarawat Mountains The Sarawat Mountains (), also known as the Sarat, is a mountain range in the Arabian Peninsula. In a broad sense, it runs parallel to the western coast of the Arabian Peninsula, thus encompasses the Asir and Hijaz Mountains. In a narrow sense, the Sarawat start in Asir in southern Saudi Arabia, and extend to the Gulf of Aden in the south, running along the entire western coast of Yemen, in what used to be North Yemen, and extend eastwards into part of what used to be South Yemen, thus running parallel to the Gulf of Aden. These"
"Powers and the League of Nations and also sent messages to other Kurds in Iraq and Syria to ask for co-operation. The Turkish military subsequently defeated the Republic of Ararat in September 1930. Republic of Ararat The Republic of Ararat, or Kurdish Republic of Ararat, was a self-proclaimed Kurdish state. It was located in eastern Turkey, centred on Karaköse Province. Agirî is the Kurdish name for Ararat. The Republic of Ararat, led by the central committee of Xoybûn party, declared independence on 28 October 1927 or 1928, during a wave of rebellion among Kurds in southeastern Turkey. The Ararat rebellion"
"from the north. Two former capitals of Armenia are located in the modern-day Ararat Province, Artaxata and Dvin. It is also home to the Khor Virap monastery, significant as the place of Gregory the Illuminator's 13-year imprisonment and the closest point to Mount Ararat within Armenian borders. Ararat Province is named after the historic Ayrarat province of Ancient Armenia. According to Movses Khorenatsi and the ""Ashkharatsuyts"" medieval Armenian geographical book of Anania Shirakatsi, Ayrarat was one of the 15 provinces of Armenia Major. It was considered the central province of the Armenian Highland. Most probably, the term Ararat (Armenian: Արարատ)"
"range is situated along an active seismic belt that stretches from the Alps in southern Europe to the Himalayas in Asia. The seismicity along this belt is marked by frequent major earthquakes from the Aegean Sea, through Turkey and Iran, and into Afghanistan. Though the recurrence of seismic events in Armenia does not reach the high frequency that is seen in other segments of this zone, rapid crustal deformation there is associated with active thrust faulting and volcanic activity. Mount Ararat, a dormant volcano, lies to the south of the quake's epicenter in Turkey. The earthquake occurred along a known"