Allahüekber Dağları

The Allahüekber Dağları (Allahüekber Mountains, which means "Allahu akbar Mountains"), is a range of mountains in northeast Turkey. The Kızılırmak River winds through it. It is part of the Pontic Mountains.

In 1914 when World War I started it was astride the border with Russia, and a Turkish army suffered a disaster when, ordered to invade the Kars area (which was then part of Russia), thousands of its men died of hypothermia in the winter snow of the Allahüekber Dağları: see Battle of Sarikamish.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Eugene Rogan (10 March 2015). The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East. Basic Books. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-465-05669-9.

Coordinates: 40°36′N 42°31′E / 40.600°N 42.517°E / 40.600; 42.517

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