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Lake Hazar

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Lake Hazar

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Lake Hazar (Hazar Gölü, Kurdish: Gola Hezarê, Covk‘ lič) is a rift lake in the Taurus Mountains, 22 km southeast of Elazığ, notable as the source of the Tigris.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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