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Thamanin

Vanished settlement · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
37.330, 42.469
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: ancient settlement in Silopi, Şırnak, Turkey

History

Mount Judi is a mountain in Turkey. It was considered in antiquity to be Noah's apobaterion or "Place of Descent", the location where the Ark came to rest after the Great Flood, according to very early Christian and Islamic traditions. The Quranic tradition is part of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic belief. The identification of biblical Ararat with Mount Judi as the landing site of the ark persisted in Syriac and Armenian tradition throughout Late Antiquity. Only during the Middle Ages was this identification abandoned in favour of another mountain, which had not until then been referred to by any of the native peoples as Mount Ararat.

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