Sultan Mountains

The Sultan Mountains (Turkish: Sultandağ), also known as Sultan Dagh range or Sultan Dag, is a short mountain range on the western edge of the Anatolian Plateau, Turkey with highest elevation of 1,980 m (6,500 ft).

The town of Sultandağı is their namesake.

They are made up of metamorphic rocks dating from the Lower Cambrian to the Carboniferous period.^[1]

West slopes of Sultan Mountains are part of the Lake Beyşehir drainage basin.^[1]

References

1 2 IMPORTANCE OF GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AT DETERMINING BASIN CONSERVATION BORDERS: SAMPLE OF LAKE BEYŞEHİR (KONYA) BASIN

Mountains of Turkey

Mountain ranges	Ilgaz Pontic Taurus Yunt

Mountains	Acıgöl Akdağ Aktaş Ağrı (Ararat) Babadağ Beşparmak (Latmus) Davraz Dilek (Mycale) Erciyes Erek Göllü Hasan Honaz Kaçkar Kadifekale Karacadağ Karadağ Karagöl Kaz (Ida) Kula Küçük Ağrı Madur Mahya Nemrut Nemrut (volcano) Nif Palandöken Spil Sultan Süphan Şaphane Tahtalı Tendürek Topçambaba Uludağ Yamanlar Zurbahan

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