Armenian Highlands

The Armenian Highland (Armenian Հայկական լեռնաշխարհ ), also called the German Ararathochland, located on the southeastern edge of the Caucasus. It includes areas of Turkey (especially the former Armenian provinces of the Ottoman Empire ), Iran, Georgia and almost completely today's Republic of Armenia. In the 17th century some nine-tenths of the Armenian highlands were under Ottoman rule. The highest point is 5,137 m high Mount Ararat, an extinct volcano. Large lakes are Lake Van and Lake Sevan.

Term conflict

In the 1980s were in the Turkish schools because of persistent bomb attacks on Turkish missions abroad by Armenian Asalaterroristen and related growing public pressure on the orders of the then Turkish Ministry of Education terms as Armenian highlands or Pontic mountain range, which indicated the indigenous peoples of Anatolia, foreign in the atlases origin made ​​with sharp objects illegible or erased completely. In many atlases of non-Turkish origin you meet today to the name Armenian highlands highlands of eastern Anatolia for.

Pictures

Armenian highlands

On Lake Sevan

Swell

• Horst Mensching and Eugen Wirth: Fischer geography: North Africa and Southwest Asia. Frankfurt am Main, 1989, pp. 258ff.

• Geography (Armenia )
• Geography (Georgia)
• Geography (Iran)
• Geography (Turkey)
• Region in Asia