Tendürek Dağı

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Tendürek Dağı
Tendurek Dagi NASA.jpg
height 3533  m
location Ağrı Province , Turkey
Coordinates 39 ° 21 '16 "  N , 43 ° 51' 58"  E Coordinates: 39 ° 21 '16 "  N , 43 ° 51' 58"  E
Tendürek Dağı (Turkey)
Tendürek Dağı
Type Shield volcano
Last eruption 1855
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The Tendürek Dağı ( poor. Թոնդրակ) is a shield volcano in the Turkish province of Ağrı in the Diyadin district near the Iranian border. One variant of the name is Tendürük. At 3,533 m it is one of the highest mountains in the country. The mountain ridge runs in an east-west direction. The Tendürek has two cones and a crater lake with a diameter of 500 m on the eastern slope and is the most active volcano in Turkey. Its last eruption of gas and ash took place in 1855. The eruptions and the formation of the volcano left behind wide lava flows that today cover 500 km². On the eastern flank, the mountain emits water vapor and sulfur fumes, which has turned the area around the crater yellow. The temperature of the steam is 60 ° C. The river Bendimahi rises at the foot of the mountain.

The mountain played a role in the Ararat uprising in the 1930s . At that time the so-called "Operation Tendürük" ( Tendürük Harekâtı ) took place. Fighting between the PKK and the Turkish security forces continues in the area around the mountain .

literature

  • Marie-Claire Cauvin: L'obsidienne au Proche et Moyen Orient . Archaeopress, Oxford 1998, p. 136.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Turkey map of the Faculty of Geography at Ankara University .
  2. ^ Tendürek Dağı in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English).
  3. volcanolive.com .