Ararat

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Ararat or in Western Armenian Ararad may refer to:

Personal names

• Ararat (Armenian: Արարատ), a common male first name for Armenians (pronounced Ararad in Western Armenian)
• Ararat or Araratian, a common family name for Armenians (pronounced Ararad, Araradian in Western Armenian). See Araratyan
• Mem Ararat, a Kurdish singer, songwriter, and composer from Turkey.

Places

Armenian Highland

• Mount Ararat, a mountain and a dormant volcanic cone in Turkey
  • Greater Ararat, the tallest peak in Turkey, part of Mount Ararat
  • Little Ararat, the sixth tallest peak in Turkey, part of Mount Ararat
• Ararat plain, along the Arax River, in Armenia
• Ararat Province, Armenia
  • Ararat, Armenia, a city in Ararat Province
  • Ararat (village), Armenia, a village in Ararat Province
• Ayrarat, a historical province of Armenia

United States

• Ararat, North Carolina
• Ararat, Virginia
• Ararat Township, Pennsylvania
• Mount Ararat (Pennsylvania), the highest point in Wayne County, Pennsylvania
• Ararat River in Virginia and North Carolina

Australia

• Ararat, Victoria, Australia
  • Ararat Airport, an airport 5 km south of Ararat, Victoria, Australia
  • Aradale Mental Hospital, also known as the Ararat Asylum
  • Ararat V/Line rail service, a regional passenger rail service operated by V/Line in Victoria, Australia
  • HM Prison Ararat, in Ararat, Victoria, Australia
• Rural City of Ararat, south-west Victoria, Australia
  • City of Ararat, a former local government area west-northwest of Melbourne
  • Shire of Ararat, a former local government area about 200 kilometres (124 mi) west-northwest of Melbourne

History

• Mountains of Ararat, referred to in the Bible
• Kingdom of Ararat, a variant name of the Iron Age kingdom of Urartu
• Republic of Ararat, a breakaway Kurdish state, 1927 to 1931
  • Ararat rebellion, 1930 uprising of the Kurds of Agn Province in Turkish Kurdistan against the Turkish Government
• Ararat, City of Refuge, An attempt by Mordecai Manuel Noah to create a Jewish homeland; a significant event in the history of Zionism.

Associations

• Ararat Center for Strategic Research , academic research center and Armenian think tank on security issues
• Ararat Chapter, the Chicago chapter of the Armenian Youth Federation

Business and economy

• Ararat (brandy), a brandy in Armenia
• Ararat International Airlines, now defunct Armenian airline company founded in 2010 and ceased operations in 2013.

Media

• Ararat Quarterly, international quarterly of literature, history and culture published in New York City
• Der Ararat, German arts magazine published between 1918 and 1921
• Ararat, a 1983 novel by D.M. Thomas
• Ararat (film), a 2002 film directed by Atom Egoyan
• Passage to Ararat, a book by Michael J. Arlen
• Ararat, a planet colonized by refugees of Resurgam in the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds
• Ararat (novel), a 2017 novel by Christopher Golden
• Ararad (daily), Armenian language newspaper in Lebanon

Religion

• Araratian Pontifical Diocese, the biggest diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church with jurisdiction including the Armenian capital Yerevan and the Araradian Province

Sports

Football clubs

• Ararat SC, Erbil, Iraq
• FC Ararat-Armenia Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
• FC Ararat Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
• FC Ararat Moscow, Moscow, Russia
• F.C. Ararat Tehran, Tehran, Iran
• FC Ararat Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia
• FC Ararat Issy, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
• FC Araks Ararat, Ararat, Armenia (originally FC Ararat)
• Ararad SC, or Ararad Sports Association, Lebanese Armenian sports and cultural organization

Others

• Ararat Stadium, Tehran, Iran
• Ararat Tehran BC, an Iranian basketball club based in Tehran, Iran
• Ararad Sports Association, Lebanese Armenian sports association

Other

• Ararat anomaly, object appearing on photographs near the summit of Mount Ararat
• 96205 Ararat, an asteroid named after the mountain
• HMAS Ararat, the name of two ships in the Royal Australian Navy
• Ararat (EP), an EP by the Israeli metal band Orphaned Land
• Ararat, a fictional town in Hungary, a hometown of Dukay family, in the books written by Lajos Zilahy from 1947 until 1965
• Ararat, a fictional planet in the p Eridani solar system, in the book Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds

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