Karak

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Karak may refer to:

• karak, a Medieval Arabic term for a fortress, borrowed in Old French as crac (Modern French: krak):
  • Krak des Chevaliers
  • Kerak Castle
  • Krak de Montreal

Places

• Al-Karak or Kerak, city in Jordan, named after Kerak Castle
  • Karak Governorate, Jordan
• al-Karak, Syria, city in Syria's Daraa Governorate
• Karak Nuh, village in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon
• Karak, Iran (disambiguation)
• Karak, Pahang, town in Malaysia
• Karak Expressway, highway in Malaysia
• Karak, Pakistan, city in Pakistan
  • Karak District, district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
• Khirbet Kerak (Karak) or Beth Yerah, archaeological site on the Sea of Galilee, Israel

People

• Karak (mascot), mascot in form of Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, 18th Commonwealth Games, Melbourne 2006
• Karak (surname), found in the state of Karnataka, India

History

• Siege of Kerak (1183) conducted by Saladin against the Crusader castle
• Siege of Al-Karak (1834) imposed by Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt on the town
• Gaya confederacy (Gaya is also known as Kaɾak), confederacy in southern Korea (42-562 CE)

Food

• Karak tea (شاي الكرك), an alternate name for Masala chai in the Persian Gulf region, a spiced milk tea beverage popular in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates

See also

• Carrack, a three- or four-masted ocean-going sailing ship
• Karaka (disambiguation)
• Korak (disambiguation)

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This page was last edited on 19 August 2023, at 13:09