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Tara

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Tara may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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Film and television

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  • Tara (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
  • Tara (2001 film), an American film, also known as Hood Rat, directed by Leslie Small
  • Tara (2010 film), a Bengali film directed by Bratyo Basu
  • Tara (2013 film), an Indian film directed by Kumar Raj
  • Tara (TV series), soap opera that aired on Zee TV
  • TARA, acronym for The Amazing Race Asia, a reality game show on the AXN network
    • Acronym for The Amazing Race Australia, a reality game show on Network Ten

Music

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  • T-ara, a South Korean girl group
  • Tara Music, a label featuring traditional Irish music
  • Tara (Absu album)
  • "Tara" (song), a song on Moya Brennan's 2003 album Two Horizons
  • Tara (Yano album)
  • "Tara", a song by Roxy Music on the 1982 album Avalon (Roxy Music album)

Fictional settings

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  • Tara (plantation), fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
  • Tara, a planet, setting of the Doctor Who serial The Androids of Tara
  • Tara, a fictional town, the setting for the 1970 film The Spider's Stratagem

Biology

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  • Tara (plant), a genus of legumes
  • Tara (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
  • Tara tree (Caesalpitarania spinosa), native to Peru
  • Tara, a Malagasy name for the shrub Lemuropisum edule
  • Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T
  • A Vitis rotundifolia grape variety
  • Tara, Māori for the White-fronted tern (Sterna striata)
  • Tara, a Chinese name for Calamus erectus

Companies and media

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  • Țara, a newspaper from the Republic of Moldova
  • Tara Air, a Nepalese airline
  • Tara International, Indian marketer for Tara Green Auto
  • Tara Labs, a manufacturer of high-end audio products
  • Tara Muzik, a defunct Indian Bengali music channel
  • Tara Newz, a defunct Indian Bengali news channel
  • Tara Television (or Tara TV), an Irish cable and satellite channel

People

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  • Şarık Tara (1930–2018), Turkish billionaire and former captain of industry
  • Tara (Assamese actress), former Indian film actress
  • Tara (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
  • Tara (Kannada actress), stage name of Indian actress and politician Anuradha
  • Tara (wrestler), ring name of professional wrestler Lisa Marie Varon
  • Tara the Southern Belle, a member of the Southern Belles tag-team from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

Places

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Natural features

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  • Tara (Drina), a river in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, a tributary of the Drina
  • Tara (Irtysh), a river in Russia (in Novosibirsk and Omsk Oblasts), a tributary of the Irtysh
  • Tara, an older name for the river Tragus, in Greece (in Arcadia)
  • Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Japan (in Saga Prefecture)
  • Tara Mountain, Serbia
  • Tara National Park, Serbia
  • Tara Island, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines
  • Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland, a hill and a village
  • Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, a ritual site of ancient high kings of Ireland
  • Salar de Tara, a salt pan in Chile
  • 5863 Tara, an asteroid

Populated places

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Africa

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  • "Tara", Cairo, a squatted villa on Gezira Island, Cairo, Egypt, made notorious by its SOE occupants during World War II
  • Tara, Zambia, a village in the Southern Province of Zambia
  • Tara Subcounty, a region in Maracha District, Uganda

Asia

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  • Tara, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province
  • Tara, Nepal, a village in Baglung District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of central Nepal
  • Tara, Russia, several inhabited localities
  • Tara, Saga, a town, mountain, and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan

Australia

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  • Tara, Northern Territory, a locality in the Barkly Region
  • Tara, Queensland, a town
  • Tara County, New South Wales
  • Shire of Tara, Queensland

Europe

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  • Hill of Tara, an ancient site in County Meath, Republic of Ireland
  • Tara, County Down, a townland in the civil parish of Witter, County Down, Northern Ireland
  • Tara, County Offaly, a townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Republic of Ireland

North America

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  • Tara, Florida, United States, an unincorporated area
  • Tara, Ontario, village in Canada
  • Tara Township, Minnesota (disambiguation), several places in the United States

Religion

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  • In Hinduism:
    • Tara (Mahavidya), a Tantric goddess
    • Tara (Ramayana), the wife of the monkey king Vali
    • Tara (Hindu goddess), the wife of Brihaspati
  • Tara (Buddhism), a tantric meditation deity in Tibetan Buddhism
  • Tara, a sea goddess in Polynesian mythology
  • Tara (Greek mythology), a name of one of the Hesperides attested on a vase

Schools

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  • Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
  • Tara High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
  • Tara Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center in Melbourne, Australia

Titles

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  • Baron Brabazon of Tara, a UK title
  • Baron Tara, an Irish title
  • Kingship of Tara, a title in ancient Ireland
  • Viscount Tara, an Irish title

Transportation

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  • Tara Air, a Nepalese airline
  • Tara, an oceanic research vessel used for the Tara expedition
  • Tara Field, an airport in Georgia, United States
  • Tara Station, a railway station in Saga Prefecture, Japan
  • Tara Street, a major traffic route in Dublin, Ireland
  • Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland
  • IKCO Tara, a car

Other uses

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  • Đurđevića Tara Bridge, a bridge over the Tara River in northern Montenegro
  • Tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
  • Tara (cat), a family cat who saved a four-year-old boy from a dog attack
  • Tara (Northern Ireland), a loyalist group
  • Tara, Chertsey, a house in Surrey, UK, previously the home of drummer Keith Moon
  • Tara Brooch, an artifact from Ireland
  • Tara Foundation, a charity for transgender people
  • Tara Hurdle, a horse race in Ireland
  • Tara Mine, a zinc and lead mine near Navan, County Meath, Ireland
  • Tara Theatre, an art house movie theater in Atlanta named after the plantation in Gone With the Wind
  • Timed antagonistic response alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique
  • Tāra, Māori language name for New Zealand dollar
  • Yugoslav submarine Nebojša, or Tara, a submarine of the Yugoslav Navy

See also

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  • Battle of Tara (disambiguation), a number of battles
  • Golden Tara, a Majapahit period (Indonesia) gold image of a Hindu goddess
  • Hurricane Tara (disambiguation), three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
  • All pages with titles containing Tara
  • Taras (disambiguation)
  • Taara or Tharapita, a god in Estonian mythology
  • Terah, a biblical figure
  • Tera (disambiguation)
  • Terra (disambiguation)
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