Black Colonel
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Black Colonel may refer to one of the following:
- John Farquharson, the Black Colonel of Inverey [1], see also Braemar Castle
- Viktor Alksnis, Russian politician
- Black Colonels was a Soviet political derogatory term for the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.
- Black Colonel (wine), a Crimean wine and sort of grapes (Russian: Чёрный полковник, Crimean Tatar: Джеват-Кара (Dzhevat-Kara, Cyrillic orthography), Cevat Kara (Latin orthography)) [2]
- Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the first black colonel in the French army.
- Charles Young, the first black colonel in the U.S. army. (Note: some sources mention Benjamin O. Davis to be the first black colonel; in fact he was the first black general)
- Fatulla Huseynov, first vice-president of the Azerbaijan Football Federations Association (AFFA) [3]
- Odontomyia tigrina - black colonel, a British soldierfly