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Guba Riots
Guba may refer to: * Guba (surname) * Quba, Azerbaijan, a city also spelled as Guba and Kuba * Guba River, a river near Indwe, Eastern Cape, South Africa * Guba (woreda), a woreda in Ethiopia * Cyclone Guba, a 2007 tropical cyclone in Australasia * Gubguba, also known as guba, an Indian percussion string instrument * a Hungarian prehistoric coat made of coarse knotted cloth * a mourning chant sung by guests at an ancient Irish Aonach * Ghana UK-Based Achievement Awards GUBA Enterprise Grow, Unite, Build, Africa (GUBA) Enterprise formerly known as the Ghana UK Based Achievement is a social enterprise organization dedicated to the advancement of diaspora Africans and Africans back home through various socio-eco ... (GUBA Awards), an annual British award that recognises the contributions of British-Ghanaians to society See also * Guba Koricha, a woreda in Ethiopia * Guba Lafto, a woreda in Ethiopia {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guba (surname)
Guba (Cyrillic: Губа) is a gender-neutral Slavic surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Danny Guba Daniel "Danny" Guba (born August 11, 1952) is a Filipino martial artist and a leading practitioner of Eskrima-Kali-Arnis. Guba is a 5 time World Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation (WEKAF) World Champion and the founder of his own style of Doce Pares E ... (born 1952), Filipino martial artist * Dávid Guba (born 1991), Slovak football player * Paulina Guba (born 1991), Polish shot putter See also * Huba (surname) {{surname, Guba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quba
Quba () is a city and the administrative centre of the Quba District of Azerbaijan. The city lies on the north-eastern slopes of Shahdag mountain, at an altitude of 600 metres above sea level, on the right bank of the Kudyal river. It has a population of 38,100 (2010). History Quba was mentioned in works of various European geographers, in ancient Arabic and Albanian sources. The castle built by the ruler Anushiravan in the 11th century was called "Bade-Firuz Qubat", and in the Arabic sources of the XII century Quba was mentioned as "Cuba". In the 13th century, in the Dictionary of Geographical names of Arabian scientist Hamabi it was mentioned among the Azerbaijani cities as Kubba, and in the sources of 16th century Quba was referred to as "Dome". Guba (Quba) city originated from the riverside village of Gudial. In the mid-18th century, after moving his residence from Khudat, Hussain Ali became Quba's Khan (tribal Turkic Muslim ruler) and raised fortress walls around the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guba River , a woreda in Ethiopia
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Guba may refer to: * Guba (surname) * Quba, Azerbaijan, a city also spelled as Guba and Kuba * Guba River, a river near Indwe, Eastern Cape, South Africa * Guba (woreda), a woreda in Ethiopia * Cyclone Guba, a 2007 tropical cyclone in Australasia * Gubguba, also known as guba, an Indian percussion string instrument * a Hungarian prehistoric coat made of coarse knotted cloth * a mourning chant sung by guests at an ancient Irish Aonach * Ghana UK-Based Achievement Awards (GUBA Awards), an annual British award that recognises the contributions of British-Ghanaians to society See also * Guba Koricha, a woreda in Ethiopia * Guba Lafto Guba Lafto (Amharic: ጉባ ላፍቶ) is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Wollo Zone, Guba Lafto is bordered on the south by the Debub Wollo Zone, on the west by Delanta and Wadla, on the northwest by Meket, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guba (woreda)
Guba is one of the 20 Districts of Ethiopia, or ''woredas'', in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the former Sultanate of Gubba. Part of the Metekel Zone, Guba is bordered by the Abay River on the south which separates it from the Kamashi Zone, Sudan on the west, Amhara Region on the north, Dangur on the east, and on the southeast by the Beles River, which separates it from Wenbera. Towns in Guba include Mankush. A refugee camp for displaced persons from Sudan operated in this woreda at Yarenja until all of its inhabitants were repatriated and the camp closed 28 March 2007. Demographics The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 14,907, of whom 7,484 were men and 7,423 were women; 2,339 or 15.69% of its population were urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants were Moslem, with 87.25% of the population reporting they observed this belief, while 12.54% of the population said they practised Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyclone Guba
Severe Tropical Cyclone Guba was the most recent tropical cyclone to form in the Port Moresby area of responsibility. The storm resulted in 149 fatalities and severe damage across southeastern Papua New Guinea in November 2007. The firstly-named cyclone of the 2007–08 Australian region cyclone season, Guba formed on 13 November 2007 close to the island of New Guinea, and reached tropical cyclone intensity the next day by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre (TCWC) in Brisbane, with the TCWC in Port Moresby assigning the name Guba. It meandered in the northern Coral Sea for the next week, strengthening to a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone on 16 November. It posed a threat to the Australian Cape York Peninsula, but remained offshore, and finally dissipated on 20 November. Meteorological history On 12 November, a weak tropical low developed within the Solomon Sea, near the Papua New Guinean island of New Britain. During that day, the system's low level circulation centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gubguba
The gubguba, also known as gabgubagub, guba, gopijantro, gubgubbi, ananda lahari, premtal, khamak, khomok, chonka, jamidika, jamuku and bapang is an Indian percussion string instrument. It consists of a dried gourd or wooden resonator through which a gut string is attached. The player holds the body of the instrument under the arm and the free end of the string in the fist of the same arm. The string is plucked with a plectrum in the other hand. Some varieties of the gubgubbi, particularly the Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ... khomok or khamak, contain two strings. References * Dutta, Madhumita. (2008). ''Music & Musical Instruments of India''. {{ISBN, 978-1-905863-18-1. * Simon Leng, ''While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison'', Hal Leon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Prehistory
Hungarian prehistory ( hu, magyar őstörténet) spans the period of history of the Hungarian people, or Magyars, which started with the separation of the Hungarian language from other Finno-Ugric or Ugric languages around , and ended with the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin around . Based on the earliest records of the Magyars in Byzantine, Western European, and Hungarian chronicles, scholars considered them for centuries to have been the descendants of the ancient Scythians and Huns. This historiographical tradition disappeared from mainstream history after the realization of similarities between the Hungarian language and the Uralic languages in the late . Thereafter, linguistics became the principal source of the study of the Hungarians' ethnogenesis. In addition, chronicles written between the , the results of archaeological research and folklore analogies provide information on the Magyars' early history. Study of pollen in fossils based on cognate words for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aonach
An aonach or óenach was an ancient Irish public national assembly called upon the death of a king, queen, or notable sage or warrior as part of ancestor worship practices. As well as the entertainment, the óenach was an occasion on which kings and notables met under truce and where laws were pronounced and confirmed. The Aonach had three functions: honoring the dead, proclaiming laws, and funeral games and festivities to entertain. The first function took between one and three days depending on the importance of the deceased, guests would sing mourning chants called the '' Guba'' after which druids would improvise songs in memory of the dead called a '' Cepóg''. The dead would then be burnt on a funeral pyre. The second function would then be carried out by the Ollamh Érenn, giving out laws to the people via bards and druids and culminating in the igniting of another massive fire. The custom of rejoicing after a funeral was then enshrined in the '' Cuiteach Fuait'', games of men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghana UK-Based Achievement Awards
GUBA Enterprise Grow, Unite, Build, Africa (GUBA) Enterprise formerly known as the Ghana UK Based Achievement is a social enterprise organization dedicated to the advancement of diaspora Africans and Africans back home through various socio-economic programs and initiatives. GUBA’s objectives are to support businesses to (Grow), Provide an engaging network to (Unite) people of African descent, and offer access to skills capital to (Build) businesses of African descent. The enterprise consists of several branches which include: GUBA Awards, GUBA Foundation, GUBA Trade Expo, GUBA Careers, GUBA Diaspora Card, Rock Your African Print, GUBA Tours, and the Diaspora Transition Network. GUBA Awards Grow, Unite, Build, Africa (GUBA) Awards is a non-profit Pan-African, Business and Innovation Award instituted to seek to reward, and celebrate the excellence and innovation of African individuals and organizations in the diaspora and back home, that work towards the advancement, empower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guba Koricha
Guba Koricha ( Oromo: ''Gubbaa Qorichaa'') is a Aanaa in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. Located in the West Hararghe Zone, Guba Koricha, according to the OCHA map (2005) is bordered on the south by Darolebu, on the southwest by the Arsi Zone, on the west by the Afar Region, on the north by Mieso, on the northeast by Chiro, on the east by Habro, and on the southeast by Boke. Woreda of Anchar was separated from Guba Koricha. Although coffee is an important cash crop of this District, less than 20 square kilometers are planted with this crop. Demographics The 2007 national census reported a total population for this District of 122,335, of whom 62,633 were men and 59,702 were women; 2,875 or 2.35% of its population were urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants said they were Muslim, with 93.26% of the population reporting they observed this belief, while 6.43% of the population practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. Based on figures published by the Central Stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
