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Western Armenian
Western Armenian ( Classical spelling: , ) is one of the two standardized forms of Modern Armenian, the other being Eastern Armenian. It is based mainly on the Istanbul Armenian dialect, as opposed to Eastern Armenian, which is mainly based ...
Ararad may refer to:
Personal names
* Ararat ( hy, Արարատ), a common first name for Armenian males (pronounced Ararad in Western Armenian)
* Ararat or Araratian, a common family name for
Armenians
Armenians ( hy, հայեր, ''hayer'' ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands of Western Asia. Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and the ''de facto'' independent Artsakh. There is a wide-ranging diaspora ...
(pronounced Ararad, Araradian in Western Armenian). See
Araratyan Araratyan or in Western Armenian Araradian is an Armenian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Sargis Araratyan (1886–1943), Armenian politician
*Khachatur Araratian (1876–1937), Russian army officer
See also
*Araratov
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Places
Armenian Highland
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Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat or , ''Ararat''; or is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and th ...
, a mountain and a dormant volcanic cone in Turkey
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Greater Ararat, the tallest peak in Turkey, part of Mount Ararat
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Little Ararat
Little Ararat or Lesser Ararat ( tr, Küçük Ağrı; hy, Փոքր Արարատ, translit=Pok'r Ararat; ku, Agiriyê Biçûk) also known as Mount Sis (), is the sixth-tallest peak in Turkey. It is a large satellite cone located on the eastern ...
, the sixth tallest peak in Turkey, part of Mount Ararat
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Ararat plain, along the Arax River, in Armenia
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Ararat Province
Ararat ( hy, Արարատ, ), is a province ('' marz'') of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is the town of Artashat.
The province is named after the biblical Mount Ararat. It is bordered by Turkey from the west and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan ...
, Armenia
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Ararat, Armenia
Ararat ( hy, Արարատ) is a town and urban municipal community in the Ararat Province of Armenia, located on the Yerevan- Nakhchivan highway, southeast of the capital Yerevan and south of the provincial centre Artashat. In the 2011 census, ...
, a city in Ararat Province
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Ararat (village), Armenia
Ararat ( hy, Արարատ) is a major village in the Ararat Province of Armenia, located 14 km south of the provincial centre Artashat. In the 2011 census, the village had a population of 7,609.
It hosted to the first CYMA – Canadian Youth Mi ...
, a village in Ararat Province
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Ayrarat
Ayrarat () was the central province of the ancient kingdom Armenia, located in the plain of the upper Aras River. Most of the historical capitals of Armenia were located in this province, including Armavir, Yervandashat, Artashat, Vagharshapat ...
, a historical province of Armenia
United States
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Ararat, North Carolina Ararat is an unincorporated community in the Long Hill Township of Surry County, North Carolina, United States. Ararat is situated on, and is named for, the Ararat River . Ararat is along the former Atlantic & Yadkin Railway line from Mount Air ...
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Ararat, Virginia
Ararat is an unincorporated community in Patrick County, Virginia, United States, south of the Blue Ridge Parkway and north of Mount Airy, North Carolina. Ararat is located near the Virginia–North Carolina state line about north of Mount Airy an ...
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Ararat Township, Pennsylvania
Ararat Township is a township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 526 at the 2020 census.
History
Ararat Township was formed in 1852 from portions of Herrick, Thompson, and Gibson Twps.
The Ararat Summit S ...
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Mount Ararat (Pennsylvania), the highest point in Wayne County, Pennsylvania
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Ararat River
The Ararat River is a tributary of the Yadkin River in southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina in the United States.DeLorme (2001). ''North Carolina Atlas & Gazetteer''. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. Via the Yadkin it is part of th ...
in Virginia and North Carolina
Australia
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Ararat, Victoria
Ararat ( Djabwurrung: ''Tallarambooroo'') is a city in south-west Victoria, Australia, about west of Melbourne, on the Western Highway on the eastern slopes of the Ararat Hills and Cemetery Creek valley between Victoria's Western District and ...
, Australia
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Ararat Airport
Ararat Airport is south-west of Ararat, Victoria, Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the ...
, an airport 5 km south of Ararat, Victoria, Australia
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Aradale Mental Hospital
Aradale Mental Hospital was an Australian psychiatric hospital, located in Ararat, a rural city in south-west Victoria, Australia. Originally known as Ararat Lunatic Asylum, Aradale and its two sister asylums at Kew and Beechworth were commissi ...
, also known as the Ararat Asylum
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Ararat V/Line rail service
The Ballarat V/Line rail service is a regional passenger rail service operated by V/Line in Victoria, Australia. It serves passengers between state capital Melbourne and the regional city of Ballarat. Beyond Ballarat, it changes name to the Ar ...
, a regional passenger rail service operated by V/Line in Victoria, Australia
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HM Prison Ararat
Hopkins Correctional Centre is an Australian medium security protection prison for males, located in Ararat, Victoria, approximately west of Melbourne. The centre is operated by Corrections Victoria, part of the Department of Justice of the ...
, in Ararat, Victoria, Australia
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Rural City of Ararat
Ararat Rural City is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of and in June 2018 had a population of 11,795.
It includes the towns of Ararat, Armstrong, Dunneworthy, Lake Bo ...
, south-west Victoria, Australia
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City of Ararat
The City of Ararat was a local government area about west-northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. It existed from 1858 until 1994.
Headquartered in Ararat, Victoria, the city had jurisdiction over an area of , and by ...
, a former local government area west-northwest of Melbourne
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Shire of Ararat
The Shire of Ararat was a Local government in Australia, local government area about west-northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1861 until 1994. T ...
, a former local government area about 200 kilometres (124 mi) west-northwest of Melbourne
History
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Mountains of Ararat
In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew , Tiberian ', Septuagint: ) is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood
A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a ...
, referred to in the Bible
*Kingdom of Ararat, a variant name of the Iron Age kingdom of
Urartu
Urartu (; Assyrian: ',Eberhard Schrader, ''The Cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament'' (1885), p. 65. Babylonian: ''Urashtu'', he, אֲרָרָט ''Ararat'') is a geographical region and Iron Age kingdom also known as the Kingdom of Va ...
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Republic of Ararat
The Republic of Ararat, or Kurdish Republic of Ararat,Abbas Vali, ''Essays on the origins of Kurdish nationalism'', Mazda Publishers, 2003, p. 199./ref> ( ku, کۆماری ئارارات, translit=Komara Agiriyê and ku, Komara Araratê) was ...
, a breakaway Kurdish state, 1927 to 1931
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Ararat rebellion, 1930 uprising of the Kurds of Agn Province in Turkish Kurdistan against the Turkish Government
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Ararat, City of Refuge
Ararat, established as a city of refuge for the Jewish nation, was founded in 1825 by New York politician and playwright Mordecai Manuel Noah, who purchased most of Grand Island, a island near Buffalo, New York. It failed to be a Jewish city.
N ...
, An attempt by
Mordecai Manuel Noah
Mordecai Manuel Noah (July 14, 1785, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 22, 1851, New York City, New York) was an American sheriff, playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. He was born in a family of Portuguese people, Portuguese Sephardic ...
to create a Jewish homeland; a significant event in the history of Zionism.
Associations
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Ararat Center for Strategic Research
The Ararat Center for Strategic Research ( hy, «Արարատ» Ռազմավարագիտական Կենտրոն) was an Armenian think tank that focuses on security issues. Located in Yerevan, Armenia, it was founded in August 2006 and is led by Y ...
, academic research center and Armenian think tank on security issues
*Ararat Chapter, the Chicago chapter of the
Armenian Youth Federation
The Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) ( hy, Հայ Երիտասարդական Դաշնակցութիւն) is the youth organization of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. Founded in 1933, the AYF became a global Armenian organization and stands ...
Business and economy
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Ararat (brandy), a brandy in Armenia
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Ararat International Airlines
Ararat International Airlines was an airline headquartered in Yerevan, Armenia and based at the city's Zvartnots International Airport. The company (the name of which is derived from Mount Ararat) was founded in 2010.
Fleet
In January 2013, th ...
, now defunct Armenian airline company founded in 2010 and ceased operations in 2013.
Media
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''Ararad'' (daily), Armenian language newspaper in Lebanon
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Ararat Quarterly
''Ararat Quarterly'' (1959–2008) was an international quarterly of literature, history, popular culture and the arts published in English
The quarterly was published by the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) in New York
New York most co ...
'', international quarterly of literature, history and culture published in New York City
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''Ararat'' (book), a 1983 novel by
D.M. Thomas
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''Ararat'' (film), a 2002 film directed by Atom Egoyan
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Passage to Ararat'', a book by
Michael J. Arlen
Michael John Arlen (born December 9, 1930, London, England) is an American writer, primarily of non-fiction and personal history, as well as a longtime staff writer and television critic for ''The New Yorker''.
Early life
Arlen is the son of a ...
*Ararat, a planet colonized by refugees of Resurgam in the
Revelation Space
''Revelation Space'' is a 2000 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It was the first novel (but not first published work of fiction) set in Reynolds's eponymous universe. The novel reflects Reynolds's professional background ...
series by
Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Preston Reynolds (born 13 March 1966) is a Welsh science fiction author. He specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle University, where he s ...
Religion
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Araratian Pontifical Diocese
Araratian Pontifical Diocese ( hy, Արարատյան Հայրապետական թեմ ''Araratyan Hayrapetakan t'em'') is the largest diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and one of the oldest dioceses in the world, covering the city of Yereva ...
, the biggest diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church with jurisdiction including the Armenian capital Yerevan and the Araradian Province
Sports
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Ararat SC
Ararat Sport Club ( ar, نادي أرارات الرياضي) is an Iraqi football team based in Erbil, that plays in Iraq Division Two.
History in Premier League
Ararat team played in the Iraqi Premier League for the first time in the 2005–0 ...
, Erbil, Iraq
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FC Ararat Yerevan
Football Club Ararat Yerevan ( hy, Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Արարատ Երևան), commonly known as Ararat Yerevan, is an Armenian association football, football club based in Yerevan that plays in the Armenian Premier League.
Si ...
, Yerevan, Armenia
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FC Ararat Moscow
FC Ararat Moscow ( hy, «Արարատ Մոսկվա» ՖԱ, russian: ФК «Арарат» Москва) was a Russian football team based in Moscow that represented the Armenian diaspora in Russia. It was founded in 2017 and joined the Russian Pr ...
, Moscow, Russia
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F.C. Ararat Tehran
FC Ararat ( fa, آرارات تهران, ''Ârarat Tehran'') is an Armenian diaspora football team based in Tehran, Iran who play in the Tehran Province League. Ararat football club is the football club of the multisport Ararat Club in Iran.
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FC Ararat Tallinn
Jalgpalliklubi FC Ararat, commonly known as FC Ararat Tallinn, or simply as Ararat, is a Association football, football team based in Tallinn, Estonia, who play in the III liig, III liiga North. It was founded by a group of Armenians, Armenian pla ...
, Tallinn, Estonia
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FC Ararat-Moskva Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
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FC Ararat Issy, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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FC Araks Ararat, Ararat, Armenia (originally FC Ararat)
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Ararad SC, or Ararad Sports Association, Lebanese Armenian sports and cultural organization
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Ararat Stadium
Ararat Stadium ( hy, Արարատ մարզադաշտ; fa, ورزشگاه آرارات) is a football stadium with 10,000 seats built in 1971 and located in the Ararat Sports Complex in the Vanak neighbourhood of Tehran, Iran. It is named after ...
, Tehran, Iran
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Ararat Tehran BC
Ararat Tehran Basketball Club is an Iranian professional basketball club based in Tehran, Iran.
Tournament records Iranian Super League
* 2007–08: 9th place
* 2008–09: 12th place
Notable former players
* Julius Nwosu
Obinna Julius Nwo ...
, an Iranian basketball club based in Tehran, Iran
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Ararad Sports Association, Lebanese Armenian sports association
Other
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Ararat anomaly
The Ararat anomaly is a structure appearing on photographs of the snowfields near the summit of Mount Ararat, Turkey, and advanced by some Christian believers as the remains of Noah's Ark.
Location
The anomaly is located on the northwest c ...
, object appearing on photographs near the summit of Mount Ararat
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96205 Ararat, an asteroid named after the mountain
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HMAS ''Ararat'', the name of two ships in the Royal Australian Navy
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''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
Lajos Zilahy (27 March 1891 − 1 December 1974) was a Hungarian novelist and playwright. Born in Nagyszalonta, Austria-Hungary (now Salonta, Romania), he studied law at the University of Budapest before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army dur ...
from 1947 until 1965
*Ararat, a fictional planet in the p Eridani solar system, in the book ''
Absolution Gap
''Absolution Gap'' is a 2003 science fiction novel written by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It takes place in the ''Revelation Space'' universe and is a direct sequel to '' Redemption Ark''.
Plot summary
The plot of the novel takes place i ...
'' by Alastair Reynolds
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