Yenidoğan, Aralık

Yenidoğan (former name Ahora) is a village in eastern Turkey at 39°46′00″N 44°22′00″E / 39.76667°N 44.36667°E / 39.76667; 44.36667^[1]Coordinates: 39°46′00″N 44°22′00″E / 39.76667°N 44.36667°E / 39.76667; 44.36667^[2] and adjacent to the point where the borders of Turkey, Iran, and Armenia meet. It is a part of the Aralık district of Iğdır Province. Before being destroyed in an 1840 avalanche was known as Arghuri, and Karakilise (Black Church). The population is mostly Kurdish.

Ahora district to top of picture.

The village is in the shadow of Mount Ararat, and nearly 50 kilometers south of Yerevan, the Armenian capital.

Ahora has a highly fluctuating climate with extreme temperatures and a highly variable precipitation.^[3]

The village is notable for the 1800 meters deep Ahora Gourge, a massive Canyon on the north side of Mt Ararat. Also numerous examples of ancient, early Proto-cuneiform glyphs have been found on rocks in the area. Five kilometers to the south of the village is the Saint Hakob of Akori monastery.

A number of stories are told of the village, among which in one St. Jacob tried to find Noah's Ark but instead found the monastery, and in another, the village is the oldest village in the world and the site of the first viticulture.

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