Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1917 — Great Ararat Not Known by This Name to the Armenians. [ARTICLE]

Great Ararat Not Known by This Name to the Armenians.

Great Ararat, which looms up about 17,000 feet Into the Armenian sky and looks down on the lands of Russia, Turkey .and ITrsia, although so truly the rallying point, as it were, for the Armenian people, Is quite unknown to the native Armenian by this name. The people who actually dwell within sight of its great snow-capped dome, who Took out toward it over the plain from Erivan, some thirty miles away to the north, or from the frontier mountain slopes away-to the south, call it by a variety of names. If they are Armenians they call it “Massisif Turks, “Aghrl Dagh,” and If Persians. “Koh-i-Nuh,” or the “Mountain of Noah.” There are really, of course, two mountains, or, rather, there is one vast mass out of which rise two peaks, “their bases confluent at a height of 8,800 feet their summits about seven miles apart.” Little Ararat, upon whose slopes it is that the territories of the three kingdoms actually meet, Is some 4,000 feet lower than its big brother; but, nevertheless, with its 12,840 feet, it is “none so little.”