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For the Taurus Mountains on the moon, see Montes Taurus. For Mount Taurus outside Cold Spring, New York, see Bull Hill. The Taurus Mountains (Turkish: Toros Dağları, also known as Ala-Dagh or Bulghar-Dagh) are a mountain range in the southeastern Anatolian plateau, from which the Euphrates (Turkish: Fırat) descends into Syria. The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates in the east. It has many peaks rising above 10,000–12,000 ft (3,000–3,700 m), with the highest point being the Demirkazık summit in the region known as Aladağlar, at about 4,000 meters high. The pass known in antiquity as the Cilician Gates crosses the range north of Tarsus. Limestone has eroded to form karstic landscapes of waterfalls, underground rivers, and the largest caves of Asia. At Kestel is a Bronze Age archaeological site where early evidence of tin mining was found.
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