🏛️ Nemrut Dağ

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Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is a 2,150-metre-high (7,054 ft) mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC. It is one of the highest peaks in the east of the Taurus Mountains.

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Nemrut Dağ is a cultural World Heritage site in Türkiye, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Nemrut Dağ was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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