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Ararat
Ararat, Armenia, Australia, Turkey 1. Armenia: a city named after the mountain, just over the border in Turkey, which is sacred to the Armenians, who consider themselves to be the first humans to have appeared in the world after the Flood. Ararat was the biblical name for Armenia. See Ağri.2. Australia (Victoria): named in 1840 by a sheep farmer, who felt his settlement resembled the grounding of Noah's Ark on Mt Ararat in Turkey.3. Turkey: a mountain whose Hebrew name is derived from Urartu, a Babylonian kingdom in the area that existed in the 9th to 7th centuries bc. The Turkish name is Ağri Daği ‘Mountain of Sorrow’. This name was given to it after a village and monastery built on its slopes were destroyed by an earthquake in 1840. However, it is also said to mean ‘Painful Mountain’ from ağri ‘pain’ and dağ, due to the difficulty in climbing it. It is called Masik′ or Masis by the Armenians.
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Ararat." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Ararat." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Ararat.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Ararat." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Ararat.html |
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Ararat , Turkish Ağri Daği, name of two mountains, Little Ararat (12,877 ft/3,925 m) and Great Ararat (16,945 ft/5,165 m), E Turkey, near the Iranian and Armenian borders. The tradition that Mt. Ararat is the resting place of Noah's ark is based on a misreading of Gen. 8.4, which properly reads "upon the mountains of Ararat," indicating a country or region. The land or the kingdom of Ararat, called in Assyrian Urartu, was situated between the river Aras (Araks) and the lakes Van and Urmia. It included all the land later called Armenia . See Urartu . |
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"Ararat." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Ararat." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Ararat.html "Ararat." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Ararat.html |
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Ararat The region in modern SE Turkey where the sons of Sennacherib sought refuge after murdering him (2 Kgs. 19: 37). Noah's ark was made to settle in Ararat according to the legend of Gen. 8: 4, no doubt because it had the highest known mountains.
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W. R. F. BROWNING. "Ararat." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. W. R. F. BROWNING. "Ararat." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O94-Ararat.html W. R. F. BROWNING. "Ararat." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O94-Ararat.html |
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