Mount Judi term for the region north of ancient Assyria which encompasses the Armenian plateau. According to Josephus, the Armenians in the 1st century showed the remains of Noah's ark at a place called αποβατηριον "Place of Descent" (, "Nakhichevan", Ptolemy's Ναξουανα), about 60 miles southeast of the summit of Mount Ararat (ca. ). The "mountains of Ararat" in Genesis have become identified in later (medieval) Christian tradition with the peak now known as Mount Ararat itself, a volcanic massif on the border between Turkey and Armenia and known in Turkish as "Agri Dagh" (Ağrı Dağı). The Quranic account of the Flood
Little Ararat peak. On , Baltic German explorer Friedrich Parrot and Armenian writer Khachatur Abovian climbed Little Ararat. Its peak and eastern flank were on the Iranian side of the border until the 1930s. During the Kurdish Ararat rebellion, the Kurdish rebels used the area "as a haven against the state in their uprising." Turkey crossed the border and militarily occupied the region, which Iran eventually agreed to cede to Ankara in a territorial exchange. Little Ararat Little Ararat, also known as Mount Sis or Lesser Ararat ( or Սիս, "Sis", Azerbaijani: "Küçük Ağrı," , ), is the sixth tallest peak in