Armenian Highlands

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geographical region historical region plateau

The Armenian Highlands is a mountainous plateau region in Western Asia, historically regarded as the homeland and cultural heartland of the Armenian people.

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All labels observed (11)

Label	Occurrences
Armenian Highlands canonical	49
Armenian Highland	1
Armenian Highlands region	1
Armenian Plateau	1
Eastern Anatolia	1
Erzurum Plateau	1
Highland Armenia	1
Highlands of eastern Anatolia	1
Karabakh plateau	1
Mount Ararat region (mythic setting)	1
western Armenia	1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical region ⓘ historical region ⓘ plateau ⓘ
ancientRegionIncludes	Armenian Oblast ⓘ surface form: Armenia Major Sophene ⓘ Tayk ⓘ Kingdom of Urartu ⓘ surface form: Urartu Vaspurakan ⓘ
archaeologicalCulture	Kura–Araxes culture ⓘ Trialeti-Vanadzor culture ⓘ
averageElevation	1500–2000 m ⓘ
borderedBy	Caucasus ⓘ surface form: Caucasus Mountains Mesopotamia ⓘ surface form: Mesopotamian lowlands Pontic Mountains ⓘ Zagros Mountains ⓘ
climate	continental climate ⓘ mountain climate ⓘ
contains	Lake Sevan ⓘ Lake Urmia ⓘ Lake Van ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ
countryToday	Armenia ⓘ Azerbaijan ⓘ Georgia ⓘ Iran ⓘ Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic ⓘ Turkey ⓘ
culturalHeartlandOf	Armenians ⓘ
drainageBasin	Aras River ⓘ Euphrates ⓘ surface form: Euphrates River Kura River ⓘ Tigris ⓘ surface form: Tigris River
highestPoint	Mount Ararat ⓘ
highestPointElevation	5137 m ⓘ
historicalHomelandOf	Armenians ⓘ
historicalName	Armenia ⓘ Armenian Highlands self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Armenian Plateau Armenian Highlands self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Highland Armenia
languageRegionFor	Armenian language ⓘ
locatedIn	eastern Turkey ⓘ surface form: Eastern Anatolia South Caucasus ⓘ surface form: Transcaucasia Upper Mesopotamia ⓘ Middle East ⓘ surface form: Western Asia
mountainRange	Gegham Mountains ⓘ Lesser Caucasus ⓘ Mount Aragats ⓘ Mount Ararat ⓘ Zangezur Mountains ⓘ
partOf	Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt ⓘ surface form: Alpide belt Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt ⓘ
religiousSignificanceFor	Armenian Apostolic Church ⓘ
symbolicMountain	Mount Ararat ⓘ
volcanicFeature	extinct volcanoes ⓘ volcanic plateau ⓘ

Referenced by (59)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Armenians → nativeTo → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Armenians → traditionalHomelandRegion → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Anatolia

Armenia → locatedOn → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Erivan Governorate → todayPartOf → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

this entity surface form: western Armenia

Lesser Caucasus → hasSubrange → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

South Caucasus → containsMountainRange → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Armenian Highlands → historicalName → Armenian Highlands self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Armenian Plateau

Armenian Highlands → historicalName → Armenian Highlands self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Highland Armenia

Kingdom of Urartu → locatedIn → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Bagratid Armenia → partOf → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

eastern Turkey → locatedIn → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastern Turkey

eastern Turkey → historicalRegion → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastern Turkey

Erzurum, Turkey → locatedOn → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

subject surface form: Erzurum

this entity surface form: Erzurum Plateau

Anatolia → easternBoundary → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Flag of Armenia → symbolismColorRed → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Lake Sevan → locatedOn → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Armenian Highland

Mount Ararat → highestPointOf → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Shusha uezd → locatedOn → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Karabakh plateau

Mount Aragats → partOf → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Kingdom of Armenia → locatedIn → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Zangezur Mountains → partOf → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Aras River → region → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Lake Van → historicalRegion → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Sophene → locatedIn → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Sophene → partOf → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Little Mher → associatedWith → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mount Ararat region (mythic setting)

Roman–Parthian frontier zone → locatedIn → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Gegham Mountains → partOf → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Vaspurakan → locatedIn → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Sasun region → partOf → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Sassanian Armenia → locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Menua → regionRuled → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Highlands of eastern Anatolia

Sarduri I → regionRuled → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Rusa I → region → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Arab Emirate of Armenia → appliesToTerritorialJurisdiction → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Van → locatedInMountainSystem → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Seljuk invasions → appliesToPart → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Biainili → locatedIn → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Urartian language → region → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Haldi → worshippedInRegion → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Shivini → regionOfCult → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Toprakkale → region → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Proto-Armenian → spokenIn → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

History of Armenia by Movses Khorenatsi → regionDescribed → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Van Vilayet → historicalRegion → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Sivas Province → historicalRegion → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Armenian → ethnogenesisLocation → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

subject surface form: Armenians

Armenian → nativeTo → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

subject surface form: Armenians

Malatya Province → hasHistoricalRegion → Armenian Highlands ⓘ

Süphan Mountain → isPartOf → Armenian Highlands ⓘ