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Little Ararat or Lesser Ararat (Turkish: Küçük Ağrı; Armenian: Փոքր Արարատ, romanized: Pok'r Ararat; Kurdish: Agiriyê Biçûk) also known as Mount Sis (Armenian: Սիս, romanized: Sis[1]), is the sixth-tallest peak in Turkey. It is a large satellite cone located on the eastern flank of the massive Mount Ararat, less than 5 mi (8.0 km) west of Turkey's border with Iran. Despite being dwarfed by its higher and far more famous neighbor, Little Ararat is a significant volcano in its own right, with an almost perfectly symmetrical, conical form and smooth constructional slopes.[citation needed] Little Ararat rises about 1,296 m (4,252 ft) above the Serdarbulak lava plateau, which forms a saddle connecting it with the main peak.[2]

Not to be confused with Mount Sis.
Little Ararat
A view of Little Ararat from Yerevan, Armenia
Highest point
Elevation3,925 m (12,877 ft)
Prominenceapprox. 1,200 m (4,000 ft)
Coordinates39°39′N 44°24′E
Geography
Little Ararat
Doğubeyazıt District, Ağrı Province, Turkey
Parent rangeArmenian Highlands
Geology
Mountain typeStratovolcano

History


On 8 November [O.S. 27 October] 1829, Baltic German explorer Friedrich Parrot and Armenian writer Khachatur Abovian climbed Little Ararat.[3] Its peak and eastern flank were on the Iranian side of the border until the early 1930s.

During the Kurdish Ararat rebellion, Kurdish rebels used the area "as a haven against the state in their uprising."[4] Turkey crossed the border and militarily occupied the region, which Iran eventually agreed to cede to Ankara in a territorial exchange.[5][6]


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Citations


  1. Richard G. Hovannisian (2011). The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies. Transaction Publishers. p. 113. ISBN 9781412835923.
  2. "Mount Agri (Ararat)". anatolia.com. 2003. Retrieved 9 January 2021. Little Mount Agri (Ararat) reaches up to 3896 meters; the Serdarbulak lava plateau (2600 m) stretches out between the two pinnacles.
  3. Parrot, Friedrich (2016) [1846]. Journey to Ararat. Translated by William Desborough Cooley. Introduction by Pietro A. Shakarian. London: Gomidas Institute. pp. 183–184. ISBN 978-1909382244.
  4. Yildiz, Kerim; Taysi, Tanyel B. (2007). The Kurds in Iran: The Past, Present and Future. London: Pluto Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0745326696.
  5. Parrot, p. xxiii
  6. Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0300153088.

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[ru] Малый Арарат

Ма́лый Арара́т,[1] Сис (тур. Küçük Ağrı Dağı, арм. Սիս) — стратовулкан, расположенный на территории Турции, на Армянском нагорье, один из конусов вулканического массива Арарат. Высота конуса над уровнем моря составляет 3925 метров[2]. Расстояние до соседнего конуса (Большой Арарат) — 11 км.


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