Black earth

Black earth, Black land or Dark earth may refer to:

Locations

• Black Earth, Wisconsin, a village in the U.S. state of Wisconsin
• Black Earth (town), Wisconsin, a town in the U.S. state of Wisconsin
• Central Black Earth Region, of Central Russia
• Central Black Earth economic region

Soil science

• Original meaning of chernozem, a type of humus-rich soil
• Translation of Portuguese Terra preta, or terra prêta do índio, very dark soils found in the Amazon Basin

Archaeology

• Identification of Italian Terramare, a technology complex of north Italy
• Dark earth, a British archaeological horizon
• Black Earth also refers to the Archaeology site at Carrier Mills, Illinois that was discovered before the strip mining.

Music

• Black Earth (Arch Enemy album), 1996, the first album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy
• Black Earth (Bohren & der Club of Gore album), a 2002 album by German ambient jazz band Bohren & Der Club of Gore
• Black Earth, an album by Turkish pianist Fazıl Say

Fantasy

• The Sindarin translation of Mordor, a fictional location in J. R. R. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth
• Dark Earth (video game)
• Black Earth area 1 and 2 (video game)(Mega Man Battle Network 4 - Red Sun version / Blue Moon version)

Books

• Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

See also

• Blacklands (disambiguation)
• Black soil (disambiguation)