Ararat
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Ararat may refer to:
- Ararat, a geographic area:
- Mount Ararat, the highest peak of Turkey.
- Little Ararat, Mount Ararat's neighbor, also in Turkey.
- Ararat plain, a geographic region covering most of Armenia.
- Ararat River in Virginia and North Carolina in the United States.
- Ararat, a place name:
- Ararat, Armenia, a town in Armenia, named after the mountain.
- Ararat, a province (marz) in Armenia, also named after the mountain.
- Ararat, City of Refuge, an attempt to found a Jewish State in Grand Island, NY
- Ararat, Victoria, Australia
- Ararat, a town in Surry County, North Carolina
- Ararat, an historical place name:
- Ararat, a traditional transliteration for the name of the ancient civilization of Urartu.
- Republic of Ararat, a breakaway Kurdish state on the territory of modern Turkey that lasted from 1927 to 1931.
- Ararat (Jewish homeland), an early 19th century plan by Mordecai Manuel Noah for a Jewish homeland at Grand Island in New York
- Ararat, a football (soccer) club:
- FC Ararat Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia.
- FC Ararat Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
- Ararat, a film:
- Ararat, a 2002 film by Atom Egoyan about the Armenian Genocide.
- A Girl From Ararat Valley, a 1949 Soviet Armenian film.
- Ararat for other uses:
- 96205 Ararat, an asteroid named after the mountain.
- Ararat (brandy), a brandy from Armenia.
- HMAS Ararat, the name of two ships in the Royal Australian Navy.