Greater Armenia: Ani

                               Agri

•Meteorite crater between Gurdulak border gate and Sancavus village

•Ararat peak at 5165 m

•Famous Ishak pasa Sarayi (palace), 17th cent. in Dogubayasit near Ararat

•Ahora Gorge, a NE-trending chasm dropping 6000 ft from the top of the mountain was a focus of an earthquake in 1840. Last eruption prob. less than 10,000 years ago

•Araxes river valley with Bronze Age sites

•Earliest historical reference to Noah’s Ark landing on Mt. Ararat is by the early Christian historian Philostorgius around AD 425.

•Urartu Archeological sites in the area around Mt. Ararat

                                Ani

•the ruined city : churches, mosques, shops, houses with a huge wall around the city

•On the Armenian border east of Kars

•Capital of Armenia with 100,000 people, 1001 churches and monasteries

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       Patnos

•Malazgirt : battle of Manzikert