Kara Dag Explained

Kara Dag or Qara Dag (Dag/Dağ/Dagh, occasionally Daq or Tagh) 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:

People

• Fikri Karadağ (born 1953), Turkish army colonel indicted for treason

Places

Azerbaijan

• Qaradağlı, Ağdam or Qaradağ, Azerbaijan
• Qaradağ, Agsu, a village and municipality in the Agsu District, Azerbaijan
• Qaradağ raion, a village and district near Baku, Azerbaijan
• Qaradağ, Gadabay, a village and municipality in the Gadabay District, Azerbaijan
• Qaradaş or Qaradağ, a village and municipality in the Tovuz District, Azerbaijan

Iran

• Qara Daq, East Azarbaijan or Arasbaran, a mountain range in Iran
• Qarrah Dagh, Zanjan, a village in Golabar, Ijrud County, Iran

Turkey

• Mount Karadağ, an extinct volcano in Turkey
• Karadağ, Kaş, a village in Antalya Province, Turkey
• Karadağ, Çan
• Karadağ, Ezine
• Karadağ, Kemah
• Karadağ, Narman

Ukraine

• Karadag Mountain, also known as Qaradağ or Kara-Dag, an extinct volcano in Crimea

Elsewhere

• • Montenegro, the state or province, known as Karadağ under the Ottoman Empire and in Turkish language as the country name
• Skopska Crna Gora, formerly known as Kara-dagh or Karadag, a mountain range north of Skopje, Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia
• Karadaglije, a village in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina

Other uses

• Karadag Khanate (1747–1808), a khanate around Ahar, Iran
• Karadagh rug, a style of carpet from the Karadagh area of Iran

See also

• Qaradağlı (disambiguation)
• Qaradagh (disambiguation)
• Black Mountain (disambiguation)
• Tribes of Karadagh, the Turkic peoples of Arasbaran