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The Mountains of Ararat is the place named in the Book Of Genesis where Noah's Ark came to rest after the Great Flood (Genesis 8:4). Historicaly it used to belong to and was part of Armenia but currently it is part of Turkey Fundamentalist believers of the various Abrahamic Religion s characteristically accept the Genesis account as historical in every detail, while other believers balance the findings of Modern Science and consider Genesis as a mix of historical and mythological detail which may nonetheless be inspired (the position of both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches). Secular historians for their part have no reason to discount the possible existence of the mountains of Ararat, as Genesis often names people and places which are corroborated by other sources. Thus the full spectrum of scholars and history enthusiasts have long sought a more certain identification of the location of the mountains mentioned in the account. Abrahamic tradition associates the mountains of Ararat with the eponymous Mount Ararat in Turkey located 750 miles (1200 kilometers) northeast of Jerusalem . An alternative identification is with Urartu people ("Urartu" may possibly be Cognate with "Ararat"). This culture was centered around Mount Van in Armenia during Biblical times ( Currently it is in Turkey). Mount Ararat has the distinction of holding this tradition in its name and among its surrounding cultures for centuries, and is also geographically within ancient Urartu, giving it the most legitimate potential claim as the Biblical Ararat; however one must bear in mind that the ark could have plausibly come to rest anywhere in any of the mountain ranges associated with Urartu. Other potential Ararat candidates have been proposed over the millennia at locales as widely distributed as Ethiopia , Ireland , Armenia and Iran . |
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