The Turkish province of Ağrı was named after the Turkish name of the mountain in 1927, while the provincial capital city of Karaköse was renamed to Ağrı in 1946. [203] Descent of Noah from Ararat (1889)]" (in Armenian). National Gallery of Armenia. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24 . Retrieved 2015-11-03. Other early notable climbers of Ararat included Russian climatologist and meteorologist Kozma Spassky-Avtonomov (August 1834), Karl Behrens (1835), German mineralogist and geologist Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (29 July 1845), [80] British politician Henry Danby Seymour (1848) [81] and British army officer Major Robert Stuart (1856). [82] Later in the 19th century, two British politicians and scholars— James Bryce (1876) [83] and H. F. B. Lynch (1893) [84] [85]—climbed the mountain. The first winter climb was by Turkish alpinist Bozkurt Ergör, the former president of the Turkish Mountaineering Federation, who climbed the peak on 21 February 1970. [86] Resting place of Noah's Ark [ edit ] A detail from "Map of the Holy Land with Armenia" from Chronica Majora (ca. 1240–1253) by Matthew Paris showing "the highest mountains of Armenia" ( montes Armeniae altissimi) with Noah's Ark balanced on its two peaks. [87] A detail from " Topography of Paradise" by Athanasius Kircher from his 1675 book Arca Noë. In the mountains above Armenia, stands Mount Ararat, shown with a rectangular-shaped ark on the summit. [88] A detail of a 1749 etching entitled " The Manner how the Whole Earth was Peopled by Noah & his Descendants after the Flood" published in The Universal Magazine showing Noah's Ark on top of the Mountains of Ararat in Armenia. [89] Origin of the tradition [ edit ] Cline, Eric H. (2009). Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-19-534263-5. Goldman, Ari L. (18 December 1988). "A History Full of Anguish and Agony; The Armenians, Still 'Like Job's People' ". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 23 July 2016 . Retrieved 11 February 2017.

The ice cap on the summit of Mount Ararat has been shrinking since at least 1957. In the late 1950s, Blumenthal observed that there existed 11 outlet glaciers emerging from a summit snow mass that covered about 10km 2 (3.9sqmi). [57] At that time, it was found that the present glaciers on the summit of Ararat extend as low as an elevation of 3,900 meters (12,800ft) on the north-facing slope, and an elevation ofIn 1927 the Kurdish nationalist party Xoybûn led by Ihsan Nuri, fighting an uprising against the Turkish government, declared the independence of the Republic of Ararat ( Kurdish: Komara Agiriyê), centered around Mount Ararat. [216] [217]

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