On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Alexanian, Moorad wrote:
> The country was originally called Urastu or Urartu after the mountain Ararat, which is well known from the biblical story about Noah (Genesis 8.4). The Armenians regarded the Ararat, which they called Baris, as their holy mountain.
>
I am certainly no authority on this, but I read somewhere that Mt. Ararat
has borne that name for only about the last thousand years. I also seem to
recall having read about some connection with a river named Arar.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
Received on Wed Mar 8 16:25:23 2006
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