Musa Dagh
Musa Dagh is a mountain in the Hatay Province of Turkey. In 1915, it was the location of a successful Armenian resistance to the Armenian genocide, an event that inspired Franz Werfel to write the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Thess, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,355 metres
- Description: mountain in Hatay Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Jebel Musa”, “Moses Mountain”, “Mount Musa”, and “Musa Dağı”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Batıayaz and Kapısuyu.
Kapısuyu
Village
Kapısuyu is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Samandağ, Hatay Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,959. It is near the Mediterranean coastline and in the western slopes of the Nur Mountains.
Seldiren
Village
Seldiren is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Samandağ, Hatay Province, Turkey. Its population is 511. It is in the forests of Nur Mountains.
Musa Dagh
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Samandağ, Hatay, Mediterranean Turkey, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.18382° or 36° 11′ 2″ northLongitude
35.93355° or 35° 56′ 1″ eastElevation
1,355 metres (4,446 feet)Open location code
8G8Q5WMM+GCOpenStreetMap ID
node 2518286806OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Musa Dagh” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Musa Dagh”
- Arabic: “جبل موسى”
- Armenian: “Musa ler”
- Armenian: “Մուսա լեռ”
- Armenian: “Մուսա Լեռ”
- Catalan: “Musa Dagh”
- Cebuano: “Musa Dağı”
- Dutch: “Musa Dagh”
- Dutch: “Musa Dağı”
- French: “Djébel Moussa”
- French: “Mont Moïse”
- French: “Musa Dagh”
- German: “Musa Dagh”
- German: “Musa Dagi”
- German: “Musa Dağı”
- German: “Musa Ler”
- Greek: “Μουσά Νταγ”
- Greek: “Μούσα Νταγκ”
- Hebrew: “מוסא דאג”
- Indonesian: “Musa Dagh”
- Italian: “Mussa Dagh”
- Japanese: “ムサ・ダー”
- Ladin: “Musa Dagh”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Musa Dagh”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Musa Dagh”
- Norwegian: “Musa Dagh”
- Polish: “Musa Dagh”
- Russian: “Муса-даг”
- Russian: “Муса-Даг”
- Swedish: “Musa (berg)”
- Swedish: “Musa Dagh”
- Swedish: “Musa ler”
- Turkish: “Musa Dağı”
- Venetian: “Mussa Dagh”
- Western Armenian: “Mousa ler”
- Western Armenian: “Մուսա լեռ”
- Western Armenian: “Մուսա Լեռ”
- Western Frisian: “Musa Dagh”
Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Musa Dagh”. Photo: Thess, CC BY-SA 4.0.