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    The Anti-Taurus Mountains (from Greek: Αντίταυρος) or Aladaglar are a mountain range in southern and eastern Turkey, curving northeast from the Taurus Mountains...
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    Katrancık Mountain, Kuyucak Mountains, and Geyik Mountains. The East Taşeli Plateau and Goksu River divide it from the Central Taurus Mountains. It has...
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    Bey Mountains) Tahtalı Mountain Range south west Anatolia Anti-Taurus Mountains (Aladağlar) are in southern and eastern Turkey Cilo-Sat Mountains are...
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    a height of 3,767 m (12,359 ft), it is the highest peak of the Anti-Taurus Mountains. Until recently, the highest peak there was Demirkazık Peak, but...
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    Aladağlar National Park (category Mountain ranges of Turkey)
    Crimson Mountains, is said to have been given to it because of the rusty colour the mountains acquire towards sunset. A part of the Anti-Taurus Mountains, the...
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    Paralleling the Mediterranean coast, the Taurus Mountains (Turkish: Toros Dağları) are Turkey's second chain of folded mountains. The range rises just inland from...
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  • Armenia, and Colchis. The Moschian Mountains were the connecting chain between the Caucasus and Anti-Taurus Mountains. The people of that area were known...
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    the Anti-Taurus. Lake Van is situated in the mountains at an elevation of 1,546 meters (5,072 ft). The headwaters of major rivers arise in the Anti-Taurus:...
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    southwest from its headwaters in the Tahtalı-Mountains (in Sivas and Kayseri provinces) in the Anti-Taurus Mountains to the Mediterranean Sea via a broad delta...
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    Sites in Turkey   Included in the list of Ramsar sites in Turkey Anti-Taurus Mountains Altınbeşik Cave Altındere Valley Mount Ararat Commander-in-Chief...
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    Empire and the Sasanian Empire. The area is a low plateau in the Anti-Taurus Mountains stretching from Mardin in the west to the Tigris in the east and...
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    The Kaçkar Mountains (Turkish: Kaçkar Dağları; Armenian: Քաջքար, Kajkar), formerly known as the Lazistan Mountains or the Mountains of Khaghtik[need quotation...
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    these excavations was the Troy VI–VII lower city. This lower town had a wide anti-chariot defensive ditch backed by a wooden palisade. Added to the citadel...
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  • Kleisoura (Byzantine district) (category Mountain troops)
    Empire's eastern border with the Caliphate along the line of the Taurus-Anti-Taurus mountains (in the West, only Strymon was in its early days termed a kleisoura)...
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    highest peaks in the east of the Taurus Mountains. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. The mountain lies 40 km (25 mi) north of Kahta...
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    Eastern Anatolia Regions up to 4,500 m (14,800 ft) in the Taurus and Anti-Taurus Mountains.[citation needed] In the Caucasus, it inhabits montane forests...
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    Cyclamen of the family Primulaceae, native to the Amanus or Nur and Anti-Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey. It is an herbaceous, tuberous perennial growing...
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    complex defensive system that the Armenians built along the Taurus and Anti-Taurus Mountains of Cilicia from the 12th through the 14th centuries. Picture...
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    its oil fields. The river originates in Turkey's Anti-Taurus Mountains (at the Sason and Genç mountains) and flows approximately from north to south, passing...
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    Mount Ilgaz Kaçkar Mountains Karagöl-Sahara Mount Kop Defensive Küre Mountains Yedigöller Central Anatolia Region Anti-Taurus Mountains Derebucak Çamlık...
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    Zincirli Höyük is an archaeological site located in the Anti-Taurus Mountains of modern Turkey's Gaziantep Province. During its time under the control...
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    successfully expanded northward to encompass the lower Anti-Taurus Mountains as well. To the north lived the mountain people called the Kaskians. To the southeast...
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    frontier between the two empires stabilized along the line of the Taurus and Anti-Taurus Mountains, over which both sides continued to launch regular raids and...
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  • "variegated mountain" and may refer to: Aladaglar, a mountain range in Turkey Anti-Taurus Mountains, also known as Aladağlar, mountains in the Central Taurus mountain...
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    region located between the Halys river, the Taurus Mountains, the Konya-Karaman Plain, and the Anti-Taurus Mountains and to all the petty states located in...
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    Aulocrene, above Celaenae, but that the issue at different parts of the mountain below the lake. The Maeander was so celebrated in antiquity for its numerous...
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    the Prince of Antioch, Raynald of Châtillon after a raid in the Anti-Taurus mountains; Raynald remained in captivity for the next sixteen years. By 1162...
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    and doux. Since the 1060–1070s, the Armenian highlands and the Anti-Taurus Mountains had been exposed to Turkoman warriors and their rule, while the...
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    in a region bounded by the Halys river, the Taurus Mountains, the Konya Plain and the Anti-Taurus Mountains, and which was occupied by a cluster of Syro-Hittite...
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    area of 81,628 km2, which includes the Anti-Taurus Mountains, the western part of the eastern Anatolian Mountains, and the headwaters of the Euphrates River...
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