Karaca Dağ ( ku, قهرهژداخ, ) is a
shield volcano located in eastern
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
.
It was also known as Mount Masia.
Which in turn was used to give the title of an iris found on the mountain, as ''
Iris masia''.
On 6 March 2006, reported that the
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research was founded in Müncheberg, Germany in 1928 as part of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft. The founding director, Erwin Baur, initiated breeding programmes with fruits and berries, and basic resear ...
in
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
had discovered that the genetically common ancestor of 68 contemporary types of cereal still grows as a wild plant on the slopes of Mount Karaca (Karacadag).
The results strongly suggest that slopes of Karaca Dağ provided the site for the first domestication of
einkorn wheat
Einkorn wheat (from German ''Einkorn'', literally "single grain") can refer either to a wild species of wheat (''Triticum'') or to its domesticated form. The wild form is '' T. boeoticum'' (syn. ''T. m.'' ssp. ''boeoticum''), the domesticated ...
approximately 9,000 years ago.
The area of Karaca Dağ was gifted to
Ertuğrul Gazi by the
Seljuk Sultan of the
Sultanate of Rum, Sultan
Kayqubad I
Alā ad-Dīn Kayqubād ibn Kaykhusraw ( fa, علاء الدين كيقباد بن كيخسرو; tr, I. Alâeddin Keykûbad, 1190–1237), also known as Kayqubad I, was the Seljuq Sultan of Rûm who reigned from 1220 to 1237. He expanded th ...
, after bravely fighting in the
Battle of Yassıçemen.
See also
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List of volcanoes in Turkey
This is a list of dormant and extinct volcanoes in Turkey.
See also
*Geology of Turkey
*Geothermal power in Turkey
References
{{Global Volcanism Program
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Volcanoes
Turkey
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References
Mountains of Turkey
Volcanoes of Turkey
Polygenetic shield volcanoes
Landforms of Şanlıurfa Province
Landforms of Diyarbakır Province
Important Bird Areas of Turkey
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