Ararat
Center of Crossroads
“This part of Eastern Anatolia,
whether it be for its potential in pasture land, or for its
location within the Anatolian route structure, is of special
importance. Routes either going West from Nakhichevan via Erzurum
to Central Anatolia or going South from Transcaucasia to Upper
Mesopotamia cross this region extending between Lake Van and
the Araxes river : it actually stands at the crossroads between
Anatolia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Upper Mesopotamia.”
•French Archaeologist
C. Marro and Turkish Archaeologist A. Özfirat, 2003,“Pre-classical Survey in Eastern Turkey. First Preliminary Report : the
Agrı Dag (Mount Ararat) region" , Anatolia Antiqua XI
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