Ararat plain

English

Alternative forms

Ararat Plain

Proper noun

Ararat plain

1. A fertile plain of the Armenian Highland in the middle valley of the Araks river.

   Vahag lives on the Ararat plain, where it is very hot in summers and cold in winters.

   • 2003, Adam T Smith, The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities:

     It is of note that the largest Urartian fortresses in the Ararat plain–Argishtihinili, Aramus, and Artashat—were located on the three primary routes into, and out of the plain, suggesting an abiding concern for the exchange of resources with other regions of empire.

Translations

plain of the Armenian Highland

• Armenian: Արարատյան դաշտ (hy) (Araratyan dašt)
• Russian: Арара́тская равни́на (Ararátskaja ravnína)