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Mount Erek
A view from Mount Erek (September 2017)
Highest point
Elevation	3.204 m (10.51 ft) See Elevation section
Coordinates	38°27′14″N 43°29′42″E / 38.4539°N 43.495°E / 38.4539; 43.495
Naming
Native name	Erek Dağı (Turkish)
Geography
Mount ErekLocation in Turkey
Location	Van, Turkey
Parent range	Armenian Highlands

Mount Erek (Turkish: Erek Dağı, Armenian: Վարագա լեռ, Varaga leř, Kurdish: Çiyayê Erek) a mountain 3,204 meters high overlooking the city of Van in eastern Turkey.

The prominent, now ruined, Armenian monastery of Varagavank ("monastery of Varag") is located at the foot of the mountain. The toponym Varag may have originated from a Middle Iranian of "crow" (waragh in modern Persian).

References

1. "Erek Dağı (Van)" (pdf) (in Turkish). Lokman Kayci. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
2. Russell, James R. (1987). Zoroastrianism in Armenia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-674-96850-9.

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Mountain ranges	Anti-Taurus Binboğa Canik Ilgaz Küre Pontic Taurus Tmolus Yunt
Mountains	Acıgöl Ahır Akdağ Aktaş Ağrı (Ararat) Babadağ Beşparmak (Latmus) Cilo Davraz Demirkazık Dilek (Mycale) Erciyes Erek Göllü Hasan Honaz Judi Kaçkar Karacadağ Karadağ Karagöl Kaz (Ida) Kula Küçük Ağrı Madur Mahya Medetsiz Nemrut Nemrut (volcano) Nif Palandöken Sarıçalı Spil Sultan Süphan Şaphane Tahtalı Tendürek Topçambaba Uludağ Yamanlar Zurbahan

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