Baris
Βάρις
Baris (Βάρις), a mountain of Armenia, situated, according to Nicholas of Damascus (J. AJ 1.3.26), near the district of Minyas, the Minni of Scripture. According to this historian it was this place where the ark rested before the deluge. St. Martin (Mém. sur l'Armenie, vol. i. p. 265) identifies it with Mt. Varaz, situated in the centre of Armenia. (Comp. Chesney, Exped. Enphrat. vol. ii. p. 7; Ritter, Erdkunde, vol. x. p. 83.) [E. B. J.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.