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Nemrut Da?? (Mount Nimrod) |
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By: Angel/Poyraz Date: July 31, 2011, 6:51 am |
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emrut Da?? (Mount |
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Nimrod) is one of Turkey\'s most astounding sights: an artifical |
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mountaintop framed by two great temples littered with colossal |
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statues. |
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ost to memory for 2000 years, the mountaintop south |
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of Malatya and north of Ad?yaman and Kahta, was rediscovered by |
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a geologist in 1881. |
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n it are two hierothesiums, open-air |
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shrines to the gods, with huge limestone statues of Apollo, |
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Fortuna, Zeus, Heracles, and Antiochus I Epiphanes, King of |
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Commagene. |
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is kingdom was no more than a minor buffer state |
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between the Roman and Persian empires, but Antiochus believed he |
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was definitely big-league stuff, so he had his own huge statue |
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seated with \"his equals,\" the gods. |
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etween the hierothesiums |
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is the artificial mountain peak of crushed stone, beneath which |
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may be the actual tomb of Antiochus. We don\'t know, and we may |
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never know. |
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ou can ascend Nemrut Da?? (NEHM-root dah-uh, 2150 |
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meters, 7054 feet) from the south using either Kahta or Ad?yaman |
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as your base; or from the north using Malatya. Both have |
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advantages and disadvantages. |
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o it in July or August, or at |
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least between late May and mid-October, or you might be blocked |
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by snow |
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he roads up the opposite sides of the mountain do not |
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meet at the top, so you cannot (yet) drive right over from north |
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to south or vice-versa. |
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ring warm clothes!�at least a warm |
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sweater and windbreaker�because there is always a cool breeze at |
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the summit, and sometimes a cold wind, even in August. |
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ours |
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are run from both Kahta and Malatya. |
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