The Nur Mountains (Turkish: Nur Dağları, "Mountains of Holy Light"), formerly known as Alma-Dağ, the ancient Mount Amanus (Ancient Greek: Ἄμᾱνος), medieval...
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Rwanda Nur, Iran (disambiguation), several places in Iran Nur, Poland Nur Mountains "Mountains of Holy Light", a mountain range in Turkey NUR Reactor...
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Jabal al-Nour (redirect from Jabal al-nur)
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...
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ٱلْجَرَاجِمَة/ALA-LC: al-Jarājimah) were early Christians following Catholicism in the Nur Mountains. Little is known about their ethnicity, but it has been speculated that...
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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...
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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...
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Lelluri (category Mountain goddesses)
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...
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Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests (redirect from Mediterranean Mountain zone)
portions of the Nur Mountains (or Amanos) along the western Turkey-Syria border, and the Levantine Syrian Coastal Mountains, Lebanon Mountains, and Anti-Lebanon...
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as Black Mountain of Hazara The Black Mountain tribes Black Mountain, Slovakia, a mountain range in the Slovak Ore Mountains Nur Mountains, historically...
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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...
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eastern extension of the Taurus Mountains and are in Hakkari province Nur Mountains (South Anatolia) Pontic Mountains (in Turkish, Kuzey Anadolu Dağları...
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Belen Pass (category Mountain passes of Turkey)
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...
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Mecca (section Jabal an-Nur)
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...
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Lipiński to Haman or Khamōn, the classical Mount Amanus and modern Nur Mountains, which separate northern Syria from southeastern Cilicia. Baʿal (בַּעַל)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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currently under construction in southern Turkey. Passing through the Nur Mountains, near the east end of the Amanian Gate, it will carry passenger and...
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Osmaniye Province, Turkey. Its population is 794 (2022). It is situated in Nur Mountains and along Yarpuz creek which is actually a tributary of Ceyhan River...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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is Ökkeş Elmasoğlu (CHP). Erzin is on the west-facing flanks of the Nur Mountains and runs down to the Gulf of İskenderun on the Mediterranean coast....
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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...
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Amanian Gate (category Mountain passes of Turkey)
Turkey. The pass provides a way through the northern Amanus Mountains (modern Nur Mountains), connecting Cilicia to southern Anatolia and northern Syria...
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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...
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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...
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Mediterranean coast on the Gulf of İskenderun, at the foot of the Nur Mountains (Amanos Mountains). There are 45 neighbourhoods in İskenderun District: Akarca...
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of the region of the same name. Sarazzi Udnē ("Highland" in Hittite) (Mountains of East Anatolia, especially the upper Marassantiya / Halys basin) (later...
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the southern Nur Mountains (then known as the Amanus mountains) in the modern-day Hatay Province of Turkey. The Nur / Amanus mountains separated ancient...
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