What is "karakol"

Karaköl (; ; alternatively transcribed as Kara-Kulʼ, Kara-Kelʼ, or Kara-Köl) is a city in Jalal-Abad Region of Kyrgyzstan. Population 18,843 (2009).

Located on the Naryn River, downstream (southwest) of the Toktogul Dam, the city was built in the 1960s to house the construction workers for the dam, and granted city status in 1977. Currently, it is home to the staff of the hydroelectric plant. From the reservoir to Tash-Kumyr the river flows through a gorge with a series of dams (the 'Lower Naryn Cascade').

The city is on the M41, near the Bishkek- Osh highway.

Category:Populated places in Jalal-Abad Region

Karakol was a Turkish nationalist underground resistance group formed in late November 1918, during the Allied occupation of Istanbul, to protect Turkey's "national unity and territorial integrity".