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Anatolia Highlights |
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Ararat
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A
dormant volcano, it looms majestically over the far eastern
tip of Turkey and most of the year is snow capped. The highest
peak at 5,165 meters is higher than any of the European Alps.
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Rising with an unobstructed view 4000 meters above the surrounding
plain, it has acquired renown as the resting place of Noah’s
Ark. Both Josephus and Marco Polo mention its existence on the
mountain. |
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Tigris-Euphrates
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Two
great biblical rivers associated with the Garden of Eden. The
Tigris has a higher water of volume than the Euphrates and flows
at a faster speed. The Euphrates is a ‘lazy river’
and in antiquity, wooden rafts carried their commerce down river
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Antioch
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The
city nestles at the northern end of a gulf against the high
Lycian Mountains. It its Golden Age it boasts street lighting
equal to that of Ephesus and Rome. Early Believers were first
called “Christians” in this city and a very influential
church was established. From here, Paul and Barnabas were
sent of their first Missionary journey. The mountain-top Castle
overlooking the city is the remainder of Crusader times.
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Haran
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Well
located on the ‘Fertile Crescent’, this was once
Abraham’s home and where his father died and was buried.
In Haran lived Rebecca, and the moving biblical story of Rachel,
Leah and Jacob took place. The Temple to the moon god Sin
had a wooden roof made from the Cedars of Lebanon and was
perhaps the greatest in Mesopotamia.
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Trabzon
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Well
positioned on the southern shores of the Black Sea, the city
enjoys a warm, humid climate ideal for growing tea, hazelnuts
and Avocados. Hadrian and Justinian supported it as one of the
ports on the Silk Route and it was visited by Marco Polo on
his travels. The Cathedral of St. Sophia overlooking the sea
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Lake
Van -
Turkey’s
largest fresh water lake. The small but quaint Akdamar Island
can be reached by a short local ferry sail. On the island
there’s a 10th Century Armenian Cruciform Church with
walls lavishly covered with reliefs illustrating Biblical
scenes.
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Click below for full size map of Turkey
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And
the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the
month, upon the mountains of Ararat. Gen
8:4
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's
son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they
went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land
of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. Gen 11:31
And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended
to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled. Acts 14:26
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