Ararat

Ararat or in Western Armenian Ararad may refer to:

Personal names

 * Ararat (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.

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
 * Ararat railway station
 * 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