The Nur Mountains (Turkish: Nur Dağları, "Mountains of Holy Light"), formerly known as Alma-Dağ, the ancient Amanus (Ancient Greek: Ἀμανός), medieval...

romanized: Jabal an-Nūr, lit. 'Mountain of the Light' or 'Hill of the Illumination') is a mountain near Mecca in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia. The mountain houses...

Rwanda Nur, Iran (disambiguation), several places in Iran Nur, Poland Nur Mountains "Mountains of Holy Light", a mountain range in Turkey NUR Reactor...

following either Miaphysitism or Monothelitism or Orthodoxy in the Nur Mountains. Little is known about their ethnicity, but it has been speculated that...

District. Its population is 252,186 (2022). Backed by the foothills of the Nur Mountains, Osmaniye lay on one of the old Silk Roads and was always a place of...

eastern extension of the Taurus Mountains and are in Hakkari province Nur Mountains (South Anatolia) Pontic Mountains (in Turkish, Kuzey Anadolu Dağları...

Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī (نور الدين محمود زنگي; February 1118 – 15 May 1174), commonly known as Nur ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a...

portions of the Nur Mountains (or Amanos) along the western Turkey-Syria border, and the Levantine Syrian Coastal Mountains, Lebanon Mountains, and Anti-Lebanon...

Συρίαι πύλαι, Syríai Pýlai; Latin: Syriae Portae), is a pass through the Nur Mountains located in the Belen District of Hatay Province in south-central Turkey...

birthplace of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The Hira cave atop the Jabal al-Nur ("Mountain of Light"), just outside the city, is where Muslims believe the Quran...

An-Nur (Arabic: النور, romanized: an-nūr, lit. 'The Light') is the 24th chapter of the Quran with 64 verses. The surah takes its name, An Nur, from verse...

Lipiński to Haman or Khamōn, the classical Mount Amanus and modern Nur Mountains, which separate northern Syria from southeastern Cilicia. Baʿal (בַּעַל)...

connection to Hamōn, the Ugaritic name for Mount Amanus, a peak in the Nur Mountains that separate Syria from Cilicia. In the 19th century, when Ernest Renan...

coast of Turkey, near its border with Syria. In antiquity, the adjacent Nur Mountains were usually thought to separate the regions of Cilicia and Syria, although...

currently under construction in southern Turkey. Passing through the Nur Mountains, near the east end of the Amanian Gate, it will carry passenger and...

Battle of Amanus Pass took place in 39 BC at the Syrian Gates in the Nur Mountains, after the Parthian defeat in the battle of the Cilician Gates. The...

associated with mountains, and in known sources appears in connection with the god Manuzi. Lelluri most likely originated in the Nur Mountains, and her name...

and heads east through Osmaniye, then turns south after crossing the Nur Mountains and runs into Syria. Due to the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in...

of the region of the same name. Sarazzi Udnē ("Highland" in Hittite) (Mountains of East Anatolia, especially the upper Marassantiya / Halys basin) (later...

Lop Nur or Lop Nor (Oirat: ᠯᠣ᠊ᠫ ᠨᡇᡇᠷ, romanized: Lob nuur, from an Oirat Mongolic name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin)...

724 (2022). It is located in a small plain in the foothills of the Nur Mountains and 440 m above the sea level. Düziçi is on a route from the Middle...

as Black Mountain of Hazara The Black Mountain tribes Black Mountain, Slovakia, a mountain range in the Slovak Ore Mountains Nur Mountains, historically...

in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. It is located at the foot of the Nur Mountains, near the modern village of Çevlik, 7 km (4.3 mi) northwest of central...

Turkey. The pass provides a way through the northern Amanus Mountains (modern Nur Mountains), connecting Cilicia to southern Anatolia and northern Syria...

in southern Turkey. It carries the Adana-Aleppo railway through the Nur Mountains, at the eastern end of the Amanian Gate. Built by the Baghdad Railway...

Bahçe District. Its population is 16,110 (2022). It is located in the Nur Mountains area. The Bahçe Wind Farm, situated on the Gökçedağ, was the country's...

2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde). It is situated between Nur Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea coast. Turkish state highway D.817 is to the...

the Taurus Mountains. On the eastern side of the railway corridor, the 105 year-old Ayran Tunnel is the only crossing of the Nur Mountains and is a major...

government against various rebel factions. The SLM/A (al-Nur) maintains its stronghold in the Marrah Mountains as of 2021, holds a territory inhabited by about...

the southern Nur Mountains (then known as the Amanus mountains) in the modern-day Hatay Province of Turkey. The Nur / Amanus mountains separated ancient...