Nur Mountains

For Identification of Biblical Mount Hor, 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
Amanus Mountains (old name of today's Nur Mountains), southern part was between the Gulf of Issus and Antioch
Promenade of İskenderun (old name: Alexandria of Cilicia) seeing the Nur Mountains (old name: Amanus) in the background.

The Nur Mountains (Turkish: Nur Dağları, "Mountains of Holy Light"), formerly known as Alma-Dağ,[1] the ancient Mount Amanus (Ancient Greek: Ἄμᾱνος), medieval Black Mountain, or Jabal al-Lukkam in Arabic,[2] is a mountain range in the Hatay Province of south-central Turkey. It begins south of the Taurus Mountains and the Ceyhan river, runs roughly parallel to the Gulf of İskenderun, and ends on the Mediterranean coast between the Gulf of İskenderun and the Orontes (Asi) river mouth.

  1. ^ Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster. 1997. p. 855. 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.