title: Karatay
text: # Karatay
  
  Karatay or Karatai is a Turkic word that may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Karatay, Konya, a town and district of Konya Province, Turkey
  * Karatay, Russia, a rural locality (a village) in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
  * Caratai, Karatay, historical name of Castelu, Romania, from the times of the Ottoman Empire
  
  ## People
  
  * Qaratays, a Turkic (Tatar) ethnic group that lives near Karatay, Russia
  * Canan Karatay (born 1943), Turkish professor, medical doctor
  * Dursun Karatay (born 1984), Austrian footballer
  * Nefise Karatay (born 1976), Turkish actress
  * Karatai, birth surname of Maksim Łužanin, Belarusian writer and poet
  