Kara Dag
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Kara Dag or Qara Dag is Turkic
for "Black Mountain". It may be written as one word (Karadag), a hyphenated word (Kara-dag), or as two words (Kara Dag). Any of these spellings may refer to:
Turkic languages
The Turkic languages constitute a language family of at least thirty five languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China, and are considered to be part of the proposed Altaic language family.Turkic languages are spoken...
for "Black Mountain". It may be written as one word (Karadag), a hyphenated word (Kara-dag), or as two words (Kara Dag). Any of these spellings may refer to:
Azerbaijan
- Qaradağ, AgsuQaradag, AgsuQaradağ is a village and municipality in the Agsu Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 443....
, a village and municipality in in the Agsu Rayon, Azerbaijan - Qaradağ raionQaradag raionQaradağ is a settlement and raion in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 109,400. It contains the municipalities of Ələt, Çeyildağ, Korgöz, Lökbatan, Müşviqabad, Puta, Qızıldaş, Qobustan, Sahil, and Sanqaçal....
, a village and rayon near Baku, Azerbaijan - Qaradağ, GadabayQaradag, GadabayQaradağ is a village and municipality in the Gadabay Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,318. The municipality consists of the villages of Qaradağ and Daşbulaq ....
, a village and municipality in the Gadabay Rayon, Azerbaijan - QaradaşQaradasQaradaş is a village and municipality in the Tovuz Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 730. The municipality consists of the villages of Qaradaş, Qayadibi, and Qonaqlı....
or Qaradağ, a village and municipality in the Tovuz Rayon, Azerbaijan
Balkans
- MontenegroMontenegroMontenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
, the state or province, under the Ottoman Empire - Skopska Crna GoraSkopska Crna GoraSkopska Crna Gora , formerly called Kara-dagh also called simply Crna Gora, is a mountain range on the border between Kosovo and the Republic of Macedonia, between the cities of Kačanik and Skopje.The Monastery of St...
, formerly known as Kara-dagh, a mountain range north of Skopje, Macedonia
Iran
- Qara Daq, East Azarbaijan, a mountain range in East Azarbaijan province, Iran
- ArasbaranArasbaranArasbārān or Qaradağ , is a UNESCO registered biosphere in East Azarbaijan Province, Iran, with a varying altitude from 256m in the vicinity of Aras River to 2896m and covers an area of 78560 hectares. It include some historical places like Babak Khorramdin's Castle...
, a protected mountain area including Qara Daq, East Azarbaijan
Other
- A Karadagh rug is an Ardabil-style carpetArdabil CarpetThe Ardabil Carpet is either of a pair of two famous Persian carpets in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art....
from the Karadagh area of IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
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