Karakul (hat) Karakul (hat) A karakul (or qaraqul) hat (Pashto/Persian: قراقلی) is a hat made from the fur of the Qaraqul breed of sheep. The triangular hat is part of the costume of the native people of Kabul which has been worn by many generations of men in Afghanistan. The fur from which it is made is referred to as "Astrakhan", "broadtail", "qaraqulcha", or "Persian lamb". Qaraqul means black fur in Turkic, similar types of hats are common among Turkic peoples. The hat is peaked, and folds flat when taken off of the wearer's head. The qaraqul hat is typically worn by
Karakul (Tajikistan) Karakul (Tajikistan) Karakul, Qarokul (Kyrgyz for "black lake", replacing the older Tajik name Siob) is a diameter lake within a impact crater. It is located in the Tajik National Park in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan. Karakul lies within a circular depression interpreted as an impact crater with a rim diameter of . The crater is relatively recent: its age is estimated as approximately 25 Ma, or less than 23 Ma, or probably from the Pliocene (5.3 to 2.6 Ma). But the Earth Impact Database (EID) also lists it as younger than 5 Ma. It is larger than the Eltanin