Direktaş, Yedi Göller (Seven Lakes), Ala Dağlar. The Yedigöller National Park (Yedigöller "seven lakes" is located in the north of the Bolu Province, Turkey.

For the Taurus Mountains on the moon, see Montes Taurus. Montes Taurus is a rugged jumbled mountainous region on the Moon. For Mount Taurus outside Cold Spring, New York, see Bull Hill. Cold Spring, or Cold Spring-on-Hudson, is a Village located in the Town of Philipstown in Putnam County New York. Bull Hill, also unofficially known as Mount Taurus, is a Mountain north of the Village of Cold Spring on the Hudson River in

Taurus Mountains (Turkish: Toros Dağları) are a mountain range in Turkey, from which the Euphrates (Turkish: Fırat) and Tigris (Turkish: Dicle) descend into Syria and Iraq. Turkish ( tr Türkçe IPA) is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. A mountain range is a chain of Mountains bordered by highlands or separated from other mountains by passes or valleys The Euphrates ( ( Arabic: ar نهر الفرات; Turkish: tr Fırat Syriac: syr ܦܪܬ; Hebrew: he פרת The Tigris is the eastern member of the two great Rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of southeastern Syria ( سوريّة or) officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic ar الجمهورية العربية السورية For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iraq topics. The Manavgat River originates on its southern slopes. Manavgat River originates on the eastern slopes of Western Taurus Mountains and flows south over conglomerated Strata for about 90 km then over the Manavgat ^[1]

Demirkazık Summit in Niğde Province

The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris in the east. Niğde is a small rural province in the southern part of Central Anatolia Turkey. Eğirdir (Eğirdir Gölü formerly Eğridir) is the name of a Lake and of the town situated on the shore of that lake ( Eğirdir) in Turkey It has many peaks rising above 10,000–12,000 ft (3,000–3,700 m), with the highest point being the Demirkazık summit in the region known as Aladağlar, at 3,756 meters (12,322 ft. ) high. Another notable peak is Medetsiz (3,524 m/11,561 ft) in the Bolkar Dağları section.

It divides the Mediterranean region of southern Turkey from the central plateau.

The pass known in antiquity as the Cilician Gates crosses the range north of Tarsus. The Cilician Gates ( Turkish: Gülek Boğazı, "Gülek Pass" form the main pass through the Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey Tarsus ( Greek Ταρσός is a City, and a large district in Mersin Province, Turkey, from the city of Mersin and near (40

Limestone has eroded to form karstic landscapes of waterfalls, underground rivers, and the largest caves of Asia. Limestone is a Sedimentary rock composed largely of the Mineral Calcite ( Calcium carbonate: CaCO3 Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble Bedrock, usually Carbonate rock such as Limestone A waterfall is usually a geological formation resulting from water often in the form of a Stream, flowing over an Erosion -resistant rock A subterranean river is a River that runs beneath the ground surface A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter

At Kestel is a Bronze Age archaeological site where early evidence of tin mining was found. Kestel is a City and district of Bursa Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. The term Bronze Age refers to a period in human cultural development when the most advanced Metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use included techniques for Tin is a Chemical element with the symbol Sn (stannum and Atomic number 50 Mining is the extraction of valuable Minerals or other geological materials from the earth usually (but not always from an Ore body

There is a ski resort at Davras about 25 km from the two nearest towns of Egirdir and Isparta. A ski area is a developed recreational facility usually on a Mountain or large Hill, containing ski trails and vital supporting services Davras (also sometimes cited as Davras) is a mountain and a winter sports and ski resort in the Taurus Mountains in Isparta Province in southern Eğirdir (Eğirdir Gölü formerly Eğridir) is the name of a Lake and of the town situated on the shore of that lake ( Eğirdir) in Turkey Isparta is a city in western Turkey and the provincial capital of the Isparta Province.

References

External links

• NASA satellite view of the Taurus Mountains
• Information about Taurus Mountains in English
• Livius.org: Taurus