Karancs

{{Short description|Peak on the Slovak-Hungarian border}}

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| name = Karanč / Karancs

| photo = Karanc_rozhledna.jpg

| photo_caption = The look-out tower

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| elevation_m = 729

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| map = Hungary

| map_caption = Hungary

| map_size = 250

| label_position = left

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| translation = Black

| language = Pecheneg

| location = Nógrád county, Hungary / Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia

| range = Karancs Hills, Western Carpathians

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Karancs ({{langx|sk|Karanč}}) is the highest peak in the Karancs Hills with an elevation of {{convert|729|m}}. It lies on the Hungarian-Slovak border.Adrian Phillips and Jo Scotchmer, Hungary (Bradt Travel Guide Hungary), 2010 In Hungary, the mountain forms part of the Karancs-Medves Protected Landscape Area, while in Slovakia it is included in the Cerová vrchovina Protected Landscape Area.

The name Karancs may be derived from the mountain's often dark green (almost black) colour. In Pecheneg and the other Middle Turkic languages, the word kara meant 'black', or from qurunçï 'sooty, charred felt'. Another possible etymology is that the word was formed from the toponymic base karant, derived from the Proto-Celtic *karn- and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- meaning "highest part of the body, horn", thus "tip, peak".

Karancs is a laccolith formed through volcanic activity in the Miocene.{{Cite web |url=http://bnpi.hu/oldal/karancs-medves-tk-57.html |title=Karancs-Medves TK |access-date=2014-11-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218152018/http://bnpi.hu/oldal/karancs-medves-tk-57.html |archive-date=2014-12-18 |url-status=dead }}