Anti-Taurus Mountains
The Anti-Taurus Mountains or Aladaglar are a mountain range in southern and eastern Turkey, curving northeast from the Taurus Mountains. At 12,851 feet, Mount Erciyes is the highest peak not just in the range but in central Anatolia as a whole.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 3,080 metres
- Description: mountain range in Turkey
- Also known as: “Ala Dag”, “Ala Daglar”, “Ala Dağlar”, “Ala Dağları”, “Aladag”, “Aladağlar”, and “Anti-Taurus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aladağlar National Park and Kızılkaya.
Aladağlar National Park
Nature reserve
Photo: Bicounet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Aladağlar National Park, established on April 21, 1995, is in southern Turkey. Its name, meaning Crimson Mountains, is said to have been given to it because of the rusty colour the mountains acquire towards sunset.
Kızılkaya
Peak
Kızılkaya, also called Kızılkaya Peak, is a summit located in Aladağlar National Park between the provinces of Niğde and Kayseri, Turkey. At a height of 3,767 m, it is the highest peak of the Anti-Taurus Mountains.
Anti-Taurus Mountains
- Category: landform
- Location: Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.8° or 37° 48′ northLongitude
35.2° or 35° 12′ eastElevation
3,080 metres (10,105 feet)Open location code
8G9QQ5XX+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 5834474385OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Anti-Taurus Mountains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال طوروس الأمامية”
- Armenian: “Անտիտավրոս”
- Armenian: “Անտիտորոս”
- Basque: “Antitaurus”
- Belarusian: “Антытаўр”
- Bulgarian: “Аладаг”
- Bulgarian: “Аладаглар”
- Bulgarian: “Антитавър”
- Catalan: “Aladag”
- Catalan: “Aladağlar”
- Cebuano: “Ala Dağlar”
- Chinese: “前托鲁斯山脉”
- Czech: “Aladağlar”
- Czech: “Antitaurus”
- Dutch: “Anti-Taurus Mountains”
- Dutch: “Anti-Taurusgebergte”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال طوروس المضاده”
- Esperanto: “Anti-Taŭruso”
- Estonian: “Antitaurus”
- Finnish: “Aladağlar”
- Finnish: “Anti-Taurus”
- French: “Anti-Taurus”
- Georgian: “ანტიტავრი”
- German: “Aladaglar”
- German: “Aladağlar”
- German: “Anti-Taurus”
- German: “Anti-Taurusgebirge”
- German: “Antitaurus”
- Greek: “Αντίταυρος”
- Hebrew: “הרי האנטי-טאורוס”
- Italian: “Anti-Tauro”
- Italian: “Antitauro”
- Japanese: “アラダーラル”
- Japanese: “アラ山脈”
- Japanese: “アンチタウロス山脈”
- Japanese: “アンティトロス山脈”
- Ladin: “Crëps de Anti-Taurus”
- Lithuanian: “Antitauras”
- Low German: “Aladağlar”
- Low German: “Anti-Taurus”
- Low German: “Antitaurus”
- Macedonian: “Антитаур”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Anti-Taurus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aladağlar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Anti-Taurus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Antitaurus”
- Persian: “کوهستان آلاداغلار”
- Polish: “Antytaurus”
- Portuguese: “Aladağlar”
- Portuguese: “Antitauro”
- Romanian: “Munții Anti-Taurus”
- Russian: “Аладаглар”
- Russian: “Антитавр”
- Serbian: “Антитаур”
- Slovak: “Antitaurus”
- Spanish: “Aladağlar”
- Spanish: “Antitauro”
- Turkish: “Aladağlar”
- Ukrainian: “Аладаглар”
- Uzbek: “Antitavr”
- Venetian: “Anti-Tauro”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as nomad camp and Yedigöller Platosu.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kızılyar Batı and Kızılyar.
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