Mountains of Ararat
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In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat are the place where Noah's ark comes to rest on dry earth. It is believed as truthful and historical by most of Abrahamic religion; others question or doubt the historicity of the Noah's ark story and whether the mountains of Ararat associated with the story ever existed.
Most Abrahamic traditions identify the mountains of Ararat with Mount Ararat in Asia Minor, and embrace Urartu — an ancient culture in the same region with a name similar to Ararat's — as ancient correspondence to the Biblical Ararat. Mount Ararat has the distinction of holding this tradition in its name and among its surrounding cultures for centuries, and is also geographically within ancient Urartu, giving it the most legitimate potential claim as the Biblical Ararat. Other potential Ararat candidates have been proposed over the millennia at locales as widely distributed as Ethiopia and Ireland.