page_title: Pinus brutia
section_title: Uses
hierarchical_section_title: Pinus brutia / Uses
caption_attribution_description: English: Pinus brutia — and view from monastery of Semen Stolbnik on top of a mountain near Aleppo, Syria. Editing in Lightroom.
context_page_description: Pinus brutia is a pine native to the eastern Mediterranean region. The bulk of its range is in Turkey, but it also extends to southeastern-most Bulgaria, the East Aegean Islands of Aegean Sea, Crete, the Crimea, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, northern Iraq, western Syria, Israel, north-west Jordan, Lebanon, and Cyprus. It generally occurs at low altitudes, mostly from sea level to 600 metres, up to 1,200 metres in the south of its range.
  Turkish pine is also known by several other common names: Calabrian pine, East Mediterranean pine and Brutia pine.
caption: Pinus brutia on the mountains near Aleppo
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