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Armenian Highland

The Armenian Highland
Armenian Highland

The Armenian Highland is a plateau of Transcaucasia, connecting the Lesser Caucasus with the Taurus Mountains.Its total area is about 400,000 km?....
(Russian Armyanskoye Nagorye; also known as the Armenian Upland or Armenian Plateau, also referred as eastern Armenia

Eastern Armenia

Eastern Armenia was the portion of Ottoman Armenia and Persian Armenia that was annexation to the Russian Empire following the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829....
) is a plateau

Plateau

In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland , usually consisting of relatively flat terrain....
of Transcaucasia, connecting the Lesser Caucasus

Lesser Caucasus

Lesser Caucasus is one of the two main mountain ranges of Caucasus mountains, of length about 600 km.It runs parallel to the Greater Caucasus, at a distance averaging about 100 km south and limits the Armenian Highland from the North and North-East....
with the Taurus Mountains

Taurus Mountains

Taurus Mountains are a mountain range in southern Turkey, from which the Euphrates and Tigris descend into Syria and Iraq. It divides the Mediterranean Region, Turkey of southern Turkey from the central Anatolia#Anatolian plateau....
.

Its total area is about 400,000 km².

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Eastern Armenia

Eastern Armenia was the portion of Ottoman Armenia and Persian Armenia that was annexation to the Russian Empire following the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829....
) is a plateau

Plateau

Lesser Caucasus

Taurus Mountains

Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat is the tallest peak in east Turkey. This snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone is located in the Igdir Province, near the northeast corner of Turkey, west of the Iranian and south of the Armenian border....
, 5,165 metres (16,945 ft). It is a mixture of lava

Lava

Lava is molten Rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption. When first expelled from a volcanic vent, it is a liquid at temperatures from 700 ?C to 1,200 ?C ....
plateau

Plateau

In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland , usually consisting of relatively flat terrain....
s, volcanic cone

Volcanic cone

Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcano formations in the world. They are built by fragments thrown up from a volcanic vent, piling up around the vent in the shape of a cone with a central crater....
s, and fault-fold range

Mountain range

A mountain range is a chain of mountains bordered by highlands or separated from other mountains by mountain pass or valleys. Individual mountains within the same mountain range do not necessarily have the same geology, though they often do; they may be a mix of different orogeny, for example volcanoes, uplifted mountains or Fold mountains...
s featuring mountain steppe

Steppe

In physical geography, a steppe , pronounced , is a grassland plain without trees . The prairie can be considered a steppe. It may be semi-desert, or covered with Poaceae or shrubs or both, depending on the season and latitude....
s and semi-deserts. There are a number of lakes in tectonic depression

Depression (geology)

Depression in geology is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressions may be formed by various mechanisms, and may be referred to by a variety of technical terms....
s (Lake Sevan

Lake Sevan

Lake Sevan is the largest lake in Armenia and one of the largest high-altitude lakes in the world.Former names of the lake include Gegharkunik , Gegham Sea , Lychnitis and Gokcha ....
, Lake Van

Lake Van

Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey, located in the far east of the country. It is a salt lakes and soda lake, receiving water from numerous small streams that descend from the surrounding mountains....
, Lake Urmia

Lake Urmia

Lake Urmia...
).

Most of the Armenian Highland is in Turkey

Turkey

Eastern Anatolia Region

Eastern Anatolia Region encompasses the eastern provinces of Turkey, and it is one of the 7 non-administrative subdivisions used for census purposes....
(Dogu Anadolu Bölgesi), and also includes northwestern Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
, all of Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
, southern Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
and western Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....
. Its eastern parts are also known as the Transcaucasian highland ("Zakavkazkoye nagorye").

The Armenian Plateau has been called the "epicenter of the Iron Age

Iron Age

In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent....
", since it appears to be the location of the first appearance of Iron Age metallurgy in the late 2nd millennium BC. It is also traditionally believed to be one of the possible locations of the Garden of Eden

Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden is a location described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man, Adam , and his wife, Eve , lived after they were created by God....
.

The apricot

Apricot

The Apricot is a species of Prunus, classified with the plum in the subgenus Prunus. The native range is somewhat uncertain due to its extensive prehistoric cultivation, but most likely in northern and western China and Central Asia, possibly also Korea and Japan....
, a native to China, spread to Europe through the Armenia Highlands. It came to be known throughout the ancient world as the Armenian fruit, and its botanical name Prunus armeniaca, derives from the Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
vernacular for apricot, Armeniacum.

In the 1980s, the ministry of education in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
ordered that names that could be conceived as reminiscent of pre-Turkic peoples of Anatolia like "Armenian highland" (Armenians

Armenians

The Armenians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian Highlands. A large concentration of them has remained there, especially in Armenia, but many of them are also scattered elsewhere throughout the world ....
) and "Pontic range" (Pontic Greeks

Pontic Greeks

The term Pontic Greeks, Pontian Greeks, Pontians or Greeks of Pontus refers to generally all Greeks from the shores of the Black Sea and Pontus, an area which was also inhabited and invaded by the Persians, Ancient Rome, Mongols , Georgians, Russians and Turkic people....
) be effaced in atlases in Turkish schools. The official term of the plateau in Turkish usage is "Eastern Anatolian Highland".

Armenian Highland

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