Cilo Dağı (; ) is the third highest mountain in
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
. It is high and lies in the Hakkâri Dağları chain, located in the eastern
Taurus, in the
district of Yüksekova of the
Hakkâri Province
Hakkâri Province (, tr, Hakkâri ili, ku, Parêzgeha Colemêrgê), is a province in the southeast of Turkey. The administrative centre is the city of Hakkâri. The province covers an area of 7,121 km² and had a population of 286,470 in 2 ...
.
Description
Cilo Dağı is part of Cilo mountain range, which is long. The
Uludoruk (), located in the immediate vicinity ({{convert, 4, km, mile, abbr=on away), is the second highest mountain in Turkey. In 1984, the area was closed to civilians. It was not until 2002 that a team of mountaineers was authorized to climb again the Cilo mountains.
Hürriyet, 28. September 2002
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See also
* Ark of Nuh or Noah
Noah ''Nukh''; am, ኖህ, ''Noḥ''; ar, نُوح '; grc, Νῶε ''Nôe'' () is the tenth and last of the pre-Flood patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions. His story appears in the Hebrew Bible (Book of Genesis, chapters 5� ...
* List of mountains in Turkey
** Mount Judi
tr, Cudi Dağı ku, Çiyayê Cûdî syr, ܩܪܕܘ, Qardū
, photo = Cudi-dagh-tr-1829.jpg
, photo_caption = The mountain range, as seen from Şırnak in the north, southeast Anatolia
, elevation_m = 2,089
, elevation_re ...
References
External links
Sketch of the range
Geography of Hakkâri Province
Important Bird Areas of Turkey
Mountains of the Armenian Highlands
Cilo
Cilo was a Swiss manufacturer of bicycles that filed for bankruptcy in 2002. The bicycles were produced on the shores of Lake Geneva in Romanel-sur-Lausanne in the Vaud canton.
''Cilo'' is an acronym for Charles Jean Lausanne-Oron. The abbre ...
Taurus Mountains
Zagros Mountains