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Mount Erciyes

Summit of Mount Erciyes in 2006
Elevation 2,419 metres (7,936 ft)
Location Kayseri Province, Turkey
Coordinates 38°31′N 35°29′E / 38.52, 35.48Coordinates: 38°31′N 35°29′E / 38.52, 35.48
Type Stratovolcano
Last eruption Unknown
Listing Ultra

Mount Erciyes (Turkish: Erciyes Dağı) is a massive stratovolcano located 25 km south of Kayseri, Turkey. Erciyes is the highest mountain in central Anatolia (3,916 metres). The volcano is heavily eroded, but may have erupted as recently as 253 BC, as may be depicted on Roman era coins.citation needed Strabo wrote that in his time the summit was never free from snow and that those few who ascended it could see both the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.1

Mount Erciyes is home to the Erciyes Ski Resort.

See also

References

  1. ^ Strabo, Geographica 12.2.7.

External links

South side of Mount Erciyes as seen from Talas
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