Karasu

Karasu is a town in Sakarya Province, northwest Turkey, on the Black Sea coast.

Karasu, Kara-su, Kara su, Qarasu or Gharasu (lit. 'black water/river' in Turkic languages) may also refer to:

Rivers

The Balkans

• A former name of the Struma River (Struma Karasu) in Bulgaria and Thrace, northern Greece
• A former name of the Mesta River (Mesta Karasu) in Bulgaria and northern Greece, forming the border between Greek Macedonia and Thrace
• A former name of the Haliacmon (İnce Karasu) in western Macedonia, northern Greece

Central Asia

• Gharasu River, a small river in northeast Iran feeding into the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea
• Kara-Suu River (Aksy), a right tributary of the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan

Japan

• Karasu River (Gunma) in Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Turkey

• Karasu (Euphrates), the western of the two major sources of the Euphrates in Eastern Anatolia
• Karasu (Hatay), a tributary of the Orontes River (formerly of Lake Amik) in Hatay Province, southeastern Turkey, bordering Syria
• A small river in northwest Anatolia, a tributary of the Sakarya River

Other towns and cities

Azerbaijan

• Qarasu, Hajigabul
• Qarasu, Kurdamir
• Qarasu, Qabala
• Karasu Kumlakh or Qarasuqumlaq, Agdash Rayon

China

• Karasu, Xinjiang, a place at the foot of the Kulma Pass

Kazakhstan

• Karasu District, Kostanay Region

Kyrgyzstan

• several places, see Kara-Suu (disambiguation)

Tajikistan

• Karasu, Tajikistan, Vahdat District

Uzbekistan

• Karasu or Qorasuv, Andijan Province, adjacent to Kara-Suu, Kyrgyzstan

Fictional characters

• Karasu, a character from the manga and anime series Yu Yu Hakusho
• Karasu, a Noein character
• Karasu, a ninja puppet in Naruto

Other uses

• Karasu, an album in the 13 Japanese Birds series by Merzbow
• Karasu relief, a rock relief in Turkey
• Karasu, a species of giant beaked whale

People with the surname

• Carasso family, a Sephardic Jewish family of Salonika, often spelled Karasu
  • Emmanuel Carasso (1862–1934), lawyer and politician
  • Isaac Carasso (1874–1939), Emanuel's nephew, founder of Groupe Danone.
  • Daniel Carasso, Isaac's son, co-founder of Dannon in the U.S.
• Albert Karasu, Jewish-Turkish journalist