Friedrich Parrot’un Ağrı Dağı Araştırma Keşif Gezisi
Journal: Coğrafya Dergisi / Journal of Geography
Year: 2019

The true expeditions that started during the 15th century were replaced by “research expeditions” in the era of 19th century imperialism. During this time, Russia was one of the countries that launched large scale expeditions with an imperialistic perspective. The Russians led an expedition to Mount Ararat (Ağrı Dağı) similar to their expeditions to various other regions throughout Asia. Chosen thanks to his “mountainous terrain” studies during previous research expeditions, Friedrich Parrot, a