Tara
Tara, tara or TARA may refer to
People
Tara (name), a list of people with the name
Titles
Baron Tara, Irish title
Viscount Tara, Irish title
Places
Natural features
Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, Ireland, ritual site of ancient High Kings of Ireland
Salar de Tara, salt pan in Chile
Tara, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland
Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland
Tara Mountain and Tara National Park in Serbia
rivers:
Tara (Drina), in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tara River (Greece), in Arcadia, Greece
Tara River (Russia), in Siberia, Russia
Tara (Italy), a small river near Taranto
Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
Towns
Tara, Afghanistan
Tara, Nepal
Tara, Queensland, town in Australia
Tara, Ontario, village in Canada
Tara, Ethiopia, a village in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
Tara, Russia, town in Omsk Oblast, Russia
Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
Tara Township, Minnesota, USA; several places
Tara Hills, California, USA
Tara, Zambia, a village in Zambia
Tara, Ireland, a village in Ireland
Other
Shire of Tara, Queensland, Australia
Tara County, New South Wales, Australia
Tara Station in Saga Prefecture, Japan
Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland
Tara Boulevard, modern name of U.S. Route 19 and U.S. Route 41 through Jonesboro, where the Tara Plantation was located
Tara, home of Keith Moon
Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Tara Field, airport in Clayton County, Georgia, USA
Tara Romaneasca, the southern part of Romania
Companies and organizations
Tara Energy, electricity company in Texas, USA
Tara expedition, Arctic voyage 2006-8
Tara Foundation, charity for transgendered people
Tara Foundation (Ireland), an Irish cultural heritage lobby group
Tara (Israel), dairy co-operative
Tara Labs, manufacturer of high-end audio products
Tara Newz, Bengali news channel
Tara (Northern Ireland), loyalist group
TARA Industrial Packaging Corp., packaging company based in Florida*
Tara Arts, cross-cultural theatre production group in London, U.K.
Fiction
Comics
Tara, a sword and sorcery heroine appearing in DC Comics' Warlord (comics)
Tara (comics), an android character in Marvel Comics' New Invaders
Tara Fremont, also called "Tara, the Jungle Girl" and "Too Tall Tara", a superhero character appearing in AC Comics
Tara Mehta, an incarnate deity character in Virgin Comics' Devi comic book
Novels
Tara of Helium, a princess character in the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tara (Artemis Fowl), a location in the Artemis Fowl series
Tara Road, novel by Irish writer Maeve Binchy
Tara Road (film) based on the novel
Tara*Starr Lane, a fictional character in the novels P.S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More, written by Ann M. Martin and Paula Danziger
Tara Plantation, a fictional plantation in the novel Gone with the Wind
Movies and television
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, starring Isaiah Washington and Ice T
TARA, acronym for the The Amazing Race Asia, a reality game show on the AXN network.
United States of Tara, a 2009 US comedy-drama TV series
Tara (2009 short film), a short film directed by Joe McStravick
Characters
Tara (Kim Possible), a cheerleader character in Kim Possible
Tara King, a leading character in The Avengers
Dr. Tara Knowles, a character in Sons of Anarchy
Tara Maclay, a character in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Tara Wilson, a lawyer in Boston Legal
Lisa Marie Varon, a professional wrestler in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Tara
Tara Thornton, a character in True Blood.
Settings
Tara, a planet setting of the Doctor Who serial "The Androids of Tara"
Tara Plantation, fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
Religion
Tara (Buddhism), a female deity representing enlightened activity and fearlessness, also Ugratara, or Fierce Tara
Tara (Polynesian goddess), a sea goddess
In Hinduism:
Tara (Devi), a Mahavidya of Mahadevi, Kali or Parvati
Another name for Taraka, the second wife of Brihaspati
Tara (Ramayana), the wife of the monkey king Vali, who married Vali's brother and successor, Sugriva, after Vali's death
Science
Tara (genus), a genus of jumping spiders
Tara tree in Peru
Tara (shrub) a malagasy name for Lemuropisum edule
TARA, acronym for the Timed Antagonistic Response Alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique.
Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T (mtDNA)
Music
Tara (album), fourth album by black metal band Absu
T-ara, a 6-member South Korean girl music group
Other
Tara Brooch, an artifact from Ireland
tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
Hurricane Tara, name of three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
Battle of Tara, in Ireland in 980
Translation
The word "Tara" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Esperanto, Indonesian, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Simple English, Swedish.
Translation(s) in other languages: Bosnian: Tara (čvor), Bulgarian: Тара, French: Tara (homonymie), Hungarian: Tara (egyértelműsítő lap), Japanese: タラ (曖昧さ回避), Russian: Тара, Serbian: Тара, Ukrainian: Тара.
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