Beshtau
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Beshtau (Russian: Бештау, from Turkic "besh" - five and "tau" - mountain) is an isolated five-domed igneous mountain (laccolith) near Pyatigorsk in the Northern Caucasus. Its height is 1402 m. The slopes are forested with ash, oak, hornbeam, and beech, and the summit is treeless.
