Black earth

Black earth, black land or dark earth may refer to:

Places

• Black Earth (town), Wisconsin, a town in the U.S. state of Wisconsin
• Black Earth, Wisconsin, a village in the U.S. state of Wisconsin
• Black Earth, Wisconsin (Potawatomi village), a former Native American village in the U.S. state of Wisconsin
• Central Black Earth economic region, one of 12 economic regions of Russia
• Central Black Earth Region, of Central Russia

In science and technology

Archaeology

• Black Earth, the archaeology site at Carrier Mills, Illinois, United States, that was discovered before the strip mining
• Dark earth, or black earth, a geological and archaeological term
• Terramare, or Black Earth, a technology complex of north Italy

Soil science

• Black earth, the original meaning of chernozem, a type of humus-rich soil
• Black earth, the English translation of the Portuguese terra preta, or terra prêta do índio, very dark soils found in the Amazon Basin

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Black Earth, the Sindarin translation of Mordor, a fictional location in J. R. R. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth
• Black Earth areas 1 and 2, in the Mega Man Battle Network 4 Blue Moon and Red Sun versions

Music

• Black Earth, a group comprising current and ex-members of Arch Enemy, named after the 1996 Arch Enemy album
• Black Earth (Arch Enemy album), a 1996 album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy
• Black Earth (Bohren & der Club of Gore album), a 2002 album by the German ambient jazz band Bohren & Der Club of Gore
• Black Earth, an album by Turkish pianist Fazıl Say

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, a 2015 book by historian Timothy D. Snyder
• Black Earth Rising, a 2018 television drama series
• Dark Earth (video game), a 1997 post-apocalyptic adventure game
• Black Earth (film), a 1923 German silent film

See also

• Black soil (disambiguation)
• Blacklands (disambiguation)