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Chors (other)
Chors may refer to: * Chors (deity), or Khors, a Slavic god * Chors Rural District, in Iran ** Chors, Iran, a village * Chors Patera, a volcanic feature on Io See also * Chor (other) * Chores (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chors (deity)
Khors, Хорсъ is a Slavic god of uncertain functions mentioned since the 12th century. Generally interpreted as a sun god, sometimes as a moon god. The meaning of the theonym is also unknown: most often his name has been combined with the Iranian word for sun, such as the Persian '' xoršid'', or the Ossetian ''xor'', but modern linguists strongly criticize such an etymology, and other native etymologies are proposed instead. Sources Khors is the most frequently mentioned Slavic god, after Perun. He first appears in the ''Primary Chronicle'' letopis along with other gods to whom Vladimir the Great erected statues: The second source mentioning the god is ''The Tale of Igor's Campaign'': " Prince Vseslav was a judge for his subjects, he distributed cities among princes, but by night he ran like a wolf, from Kiev he ran to Tmutarakan, before the cock crowed, as a wolf he ran along the road of the great Khors." God is also mentioned in the apocryphal work ''Sermon and Apo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chors Rural District
Chors Rural District ( fa, دهستان چورس) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Central District of Chaypareh County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 4,995, in 1,242 families. The rural district has 17 villages. References Rural Districts of West Azerbaijan Province Chaypareh County {{Chaypareh-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chors, Iran
Chors ( fa, چورس, also Romanized as Chūrs, Chowras, and Chowrs; also known as Choras, Chors, and Jūres) is a village in Churs Rural District, in the Central District of Chaypareh County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,367, in 636 families. The location of modern-day Churs proved to be extremely pivotal in Armenian history. On 26 May 451 AD, a decisive battle was fought at the location that would be one of the single most important events in Armenian history. On the Avarayr Plain, at what is modern-day Churs in the West Azerbaijan Province, the Armenian Army under Vardan Mamikonian clashed with Sassanid Persia. Although the Persians were victorious on the battlefield itself, the battle proved to be a major strategic victory for Armenians, as Avarayr paved the way to the Nvarsak Treaty The Treaty of Nvarsak (also spelled Nuarsak) was signed between the Armenian rebel leader Vahan Mamikonian and the representatives of the Sasanian Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chors Patera
Chors may refer to: * Chors (deity), or Khors, a Slavic god * Chors Rural District, in Iran ** Chors, Iran Chors ( fa, چورس, also Romanized as Chūrs, Chowras, and Chowrs; also known as Choras, Chors, and Jūres) is a village in Churs Rural District, in the Central District of Chaypareh County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, ..., a village * Chors Patera, a volcanic feature on Io See also * Chor (other) * Chores (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Volcanic Features On Io
This is a list of named volcanic surface features on Jupiter's moon Io. These names have been approved for use by the International Astronomical Union. The features listed below represent a subset of the total known volcanic features on Io's surface with the majority currently not having an officially approved name. The names of volcanic features on Io use a combination of a name derived from mythological figures from around the world related to the Sun, fire, volcanoes, thunder, or smithing, places from the Greek mythological story of Io, Dante's ''Inferno'', or from the name of a nearby feature on Io's surface and an approved descriptive term. The descriptive term used is based on the type of feature named and how it was first discovered. Volcanoes that were first observed as an active feature from observations of a volcanic plume fit under the category of "Eruptive Center" and do not use a descriptive term, though portions of these features may have also received names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chor (other)
Chor may refer to: People with the name * Chor Chee Heung, Malaysian politician * Chor Hooi Yee, Malaysian badminton player * Chor Lau Heung, fictional character * Chor Yeok Eng, Singaporean politician * Chor Yuen, Chinese film director and actor Other uses * Chor, Sindh, a town in Pakistan * River Chor, a river in England * CHOR, a Canadian radio station See also * * Choir * Chore (other) * Chors (other) Chors may refer to: * Chors (deity), or Khors, a Slavic god * Chors Rural District, in Iran ** Chors, Iran, a village * Chors Patera, a volcanic feature on Io See also * Chor (other) * Chores (other) {{Disambiguatio ... * Khor (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
