The red grape variety originates from Turkey; the name means "Black of Kalecik". Synonyms are Adakarasi, Çalkarasi, Hasanede, Horozkarasi, Kara Kalecik and Papazkarasi. The ancestry (parentage) is unknown. According to one hypothesis, the variety or an ancestor was already cultivated around 1,500 BC in the Hittite Empire, which at that time encompassed large parts of present-day Anatolia, but this can of course no longer be verified. It should not be confused with the Adakarasi, Çalkarasi, Horozkarasi, Papazkarasi or Sungurlu varieties, despite seemingly suggestive synonyms or morphological similarities (some of them are probably identical).
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