Mount Erek (Turkish: Erek Dağı, Armenian: Վարագա լեռ, Varaga leř, Kurdish: Çiyayê Erek) a mountain 3,204 meters high overlooking the city of Van in eastern Turkey.[1]

The prominent, now ruined, Armenian monastery of Varagavank ("monastery of Varag") is located at the foot of the mountain. The toponym Varag may have originated from a Middle Iranian of "crow" (waragh in modern Persian).[2]

References

  1. ^ "Erek Dağı (Van)" (pdf) (in Turkish). Lokman Kayci. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
  2. ^ Russell, James R. (1987). Zoroastrianism in Armenia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-674-96850-9.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Erek
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