Nur Mountains

Coordinates: 36°45′N 36°20′E / 36.750°N 36.333°E / 36.750; 36.333
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For Taurus Amanus in Lebanon, see Mount Hor § Northern Mount Hor.
Nur Mountains
Alma-Dağ, Amanos Mountains
Nur Mountains is located in Turkey
Nur Mountains
Nur Mountains
Highest point
ElevationBozdağ Dağı
Naming
Native nameNur Dağları (Turkish)
Geography
CountryTurkey
ProvinceHatay
Gulf of Issus and Antioch
Alexandria of Cilicia
) seeing the Nur Mountains (old name: Amanus) in the background.

The Nur Mountains (

Gulf of İskenderun and the Orontes (Asi
) river mouth.

Geography

The range is around 100 miles (200 kilometers) in length and reaches a maximum elevation of 2,240 m (7,350 ft). It divides the coastal region of

Amanic Gates
(Bahçe Pass) lies farther north.

Monasticism in the Black Mountain

The specific term "Mount Amanus" is referred to by ancient writers.

Romanos III, disturbed by the number of "heretical" (i.e., Syriac and Armenian) monks in the Black Mountain, tried to draft them for his campaign against Aleppo. In the 1050s the famous physician Ibn Butlan, who later would himself become a monk in Antioch, was impressed by the general health of monasticism in the region and especially of the monastery of St Simeon the Younger.[5] In 1066, the monasteries were devastated by Afshin Bey who killed many monks.[7] In 1098, the monks gave provisions to the Crusader army besieging Antioch.[8] The monasteries were plundered again after the Battle of Ager Sanguinis in 1119 and many monks slain.[9]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9780877795469
    . Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  2. ^ Mohsen Zakeri, Sasanid Soldiers in Early Muslim Society: The Origins of 'Ayyārān and Futuwwa (Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995), p. 151.
  3. ^ Grote, George (1862). A History of Greece. London: John Murray. p. 312. Retrieved 19 January 2017. Mount Amanus.
  4. ^ Anthon, Charles (1872). A Classical Dictionary. New York: Harper & Brothers. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  5. ^
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  7. ISBN 9781351983860
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  8. ^ Jos J. S. Weitenberg, "The Armenian Monasteries in the Black Mountain", in K. Ciggaar and M. Metcalf (eds.), East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean, Vol. 1 (Peeters, 2006), pp. 79–81.
  9. ^ WELTECKE, DOROTHEA (May 2003). "THE SYRIAC ORTHODOX IN THE PRINCIPALITY OF ANTIOCH DURING THE CRUSADER PERIOD". Antioch from the Byzantine Reconquest Until the End of the Crusader Principality: Acta of the Congress Held at Hernen Castle in May 2003: 112.

36°45′N 36°20′E / 36.750°N 36.333°E / 36.750; 36.333

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