Ala Dagh

[ ah-lah dahkh ]

noun

1. a mountain range in S Turkey: highest peak, about 11,000 feet (3,350 meters).
2. a mountain range in E Turkey: highest peak, about 11,500 feet (3,500 meters).

Example Sentences

The third section of the Elburz, with its principal ranges striking S.W. to N.E., has a length of about 290 m., and ends some distance beyond Bujnurd in northern Khorasan, where it joins the Ala Dagh range, which has a direction to the S.E., and, continuing with various appellations to northern Afghanistan, unites with the Paropamisus.

From Project Gutenberg

Taurus, Mount, a mountain range of Turkey in Asia, stretching W. for about 500 m. in an unbroken chain from the head-waters of the Euphrates to the Ægean Sea, and forming the S. buttress of the tableland of Asia Minor; in the E. is known as the Ala Dagh, in the W. as the Bulghar Dagh.

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