BARIS
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.