What is Mount Ararat?
{{Infobox Mountain | name=Mount Ararat '''''Ağrı Dağı''''' | photo=NEO ararat big.jpg | photo_caption=Satellite picture of Mount Ararat | elevation=5,137 metres (16,854 ft), see [[#Elevation|section]] | location=[[Iğdır Province]], [[Turkey]] | prominence = 3,611 m <small>[[List of peaks by prominence|ranked 48th]]</small> | coordinates = {{coord|39|42.26|N|44|17.5|E|type:mountain}} | type=[[Stratovolcano]] | age= | last_eruption=[[1840]]<ref>[http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0103-04-&volpage=erupt&VErupt=Y&VSources=Y&VRep=N&VWeekly=N Global Volcanism Program]</ref> }} '''Mount Ararat''' ([[Turkish language|Turkish]]: Ağrı Dağı; [[Armenian Language|Armenian]]: Արարատ; Kurdish: Grîdax or Çiyayê Agirî) is the tallest peak in the [[Armenian Highland]]s and modern-day [[Turkey]]. The [[mountain]] is always capped with [[snow]], and it is a [[dormant volcano]]. It is in Iğdır Province, near the northeast corner of Turkey, 16&nbsp;km west of [[Iran]] and 32&nbsp;km south of the [[Armenia]]n border. == History == The people and area who lived in this area was the [[Armenians|Armenian]] kingdom of [[Urartu|Ararat]] (in [[Assyrians|Assyrian]]: Urartu). Armenians lived here for nearly 3000 years. In the 16th century the mountain became part of the border between the [[Ottoman Empire]] and the [[Safavid dynasty]] of Persia. Later it was the border of Russia. In [[1923]] the [[Treaty of Lausanne]] put Ararat in the administration of Turkey. It is a national symbol of [[Armenia]] and an object of [[irredentism]]. == Gallery == <gallery> Image:Arar sil.jpg|Ararat, Climbing route at 4,700m Image:Arar vrh1.jpg|Ararat, View on snow covered top from 4,900m Image:Arar_dalj5.jpg|Ararat, from 2,700m Image:Ararat dalj1.jpg|Ararat, from a village Image:Arar_dalj2.jpg|Ararat, View with truck driving mountiners Image:Mount Ararat 2, Ararat Plain, Armenia.jpg|Ararat from Ararat plain Image:Ararat.JPG|Ararat, from a [[Western Armenia]] perspective Image:Armenia Khorvirap.jpg|Khor Virap monastery in front of Mount A