Lake Hazar

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Lake Hazar
Lake Hazar and pine trees
Lake Hazar
Location	Taurus Mountains
Coordinates	38°29′N 39°25′E / 38.483°N 39.417°E / 38.483; 39.417
Lake type	Rift lake
Primary outflows	Tigris
Basin countries	Turkey
Max. length	22 km (14 mi)
Max. width	6 km (3.7 mi)

Lake Hazar (Turkish: Hazar Gölü; Armenian: Ծովք լիճ, romanized: Covk‘ lič) is a rift lake in the Taurus Mountains, 22 km southeast of Elazığ, notable as the source of the Tigris. Formerly known as Lake Geoljuk,^{[citation needed]} the lake was used as an execution site during the Armenian genocide.^[1][2]