Haykakan Par

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Haykakan Par mountains
Highest point
Peak	Suqavet
Elevation	3,455 m (11,335 ft)
Coordinates	39°51′31″N 42°02′13″E / 39.85861°N 42.03694°E / 39.85861; 42.03694
Dimensions
Length	400 km (250 mi)
Naming
Native name	Հայկական Պար Լեռներ (Armenian)
Geography
Country	Turkey

Haykakan Par (Armenian: Հայկական Պար, lit. 'Armenian Dance') is a ridge at the middle of the Armenian highlands. It starts near sources of the Araxes river and stretches from the south bank as far west as Mount Ararat.^[1][2] The length of the ridge 200 km, the height - up to 3445 m. It was formed by a chain of volcanoes that arose along a major tectonic fault. The ridge is part of the watershed between the basins of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf.

Due to the Armenian genocide, the ethnic composition of the region has changed radically over the last 150 years. In the 1920s, the newly-founded Turkish Republic started the Turkification of all Armenian toponyms remaining in the eastern half of present-day Turkey.