Mount Ararat


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Noun1.Mount Ararat - the mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood recededMount Ararat - the mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded
Republic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923
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It is just possible that this hill is Mount Ararat, and that Noah's Ark rested here, and he ate oysters and threw the shells overboard.
"Here, then, is a puzzle for the learned," observed D'Artagnan, "until now they have never been able to agree as to the situation of Paradise; some place it on Mount Ararat, others between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates; it seems that they have been looking very far away for it, while it was actually very near.
"The Apple Orchard, Mount Ararat Road, Highgate," Mary said, speaking slowly and rather strangely.
This day corresponds to the Day of Ashure when, according to the Book of Genesis, Noah came to rest on Mount Ararat. It is believed that Noah and his followers made the dessert from the leftover wheat, beans, chickpeas and so on that were spilled on the deck of the ark.
The ark rested on the top of Mount Ararat, ancient Urarte, North of Mesopotamia, and now Modern Armenia.
MOUNT ARARAT (3.30) can land the odds for thriving Karl Burke in the Bell itself.
delivered by the Prophet (PBUH) at Mount Ararat in March 632.
Legend has it that by the time the ark of the biblical patriarch had settled on Mount Ararat, the only remaining food were grains, dried fruit and nuts.
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A small number of Lebanese students have already made the trip to Yerevan: In the past academic year, 19 Lebanese citizens chose to shun Mount Lebanon to study in the shadow of Mount Ararat, the mountain close to the Armenian capital that many Christians believe was the final resting place of Noah's Ark.

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