The Great Mount Erciyes
Mount Erciyes (Turkish: Erciyes Da??) is a massive stratovolcano located 25 km south of Kayseri, Turkey. Erciyes is the highest mountain in central Anatolia (3,916 metres). The volcano is heavily eroded, but may have erupted as recently as 253 BC, as may be depicted on Roman era coins.[citation needed] Strabo wrote that in his time the summit was never free from snow and that those few…