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Gera (other)
Gera, Géra or GERA can refer to: Places Africa * Gera (Egypt) (also Geras or Gerrha), former city and current Latin Catholic titular see * Kingdom of Gera, a former realm in present-day Ethiopia * Gera (woreda), district located in Ethiopia about the same place as the former kingdom Europe * Gera, a city in Thuringia, Germany ** Bezirk Gera former district of the German Democratic Republic centered on Gera * Gera, former community on the Zahme Gera river, today Geraberg, Germany * Gera (river), a river in Thuringia, Germany, and its sources and tributaries ** Wilde Gera, left tributary ** Wilde Gera (Erfurt), arm of the Gera at Erfurt, Germany ** Zahme Gera, right tributary * Gera, Greece, municipality on the island of Lesbos, Greece * Gera (Pizzighettone) a locality in Lombardy, Italy * Gera Lario, a town in Lombardy, Italy * Sveta Gera, peak of the Žumberak hills in Croatia, named after St. Gertrude the Great United States * Gera, Virginia, an unincorporated communit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gera (Egypt)
{{other uses, Gera (other), Geras Gera(s) was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Egypt and remains a Latin Catholic titular see. Its modern location, now in Egypt, is unclear. History Gera(s) was important enough in the Late Roman province of Augustamnica Prima to be one of the suffragans of its capital Pelusium's Metropolitan Archbishopric. It was however to fade completely. Titular see The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric in the 18th century under the name Gerrha (Gerra in Curiate Italian), which was changed in 1925 to Gera(s). It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, all of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank : * Francisco Juan Leiza (1739.02.23 – 1747.10.24) * Juan Francisco Manrique Lara (1749.09.22 – 1754.04.01) * Alfonso Solís Grajera, Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (O.S.) (1757.07.18 – 1783.02.17) * Fr. Dominicus Castells (1786.07.24 – 1788.07.23) * Pablo Sitjar Ruata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |