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Gora
Gora may refer to: *Gora (surname) *'' Gora'', a Bengali novel by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore *Gora (musical instrument) *'' G.O.R.A.'', a 2004 Turkish comedy film * Goparaju Ramachandra Rao ("Gora", 1902–1975), Indian social reformer and atheist activist Places * Gora (region), in southern Kosovo and north-eastern Albania *Gora, Croatia, a village near Petrinja, Croatia * Góra (other), places in Poland *Gora, Russia, several rural localities in Russia *Gora (Kakanj), a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina *Gora (Vogošća), a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina *Gora, Krško, a settlement in the Municipality of Krško, Slovenia *Gora nad Sodražico (also known as Gora), Slovenia, a community and parish comprising the villages of Betonovo, Kračali, Janeži, Petrinci, and Kržeti *Gora Ardan, a peak in the western plains of Turkmenistan *Gora Cemetery (other) * Gōra Station, a railway station in Hakone, Japan See also *Goura (other) *Nova Gora (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gora (region)
Gora (Cyrillic: Гора; ) is a geographical region in southern Kosovo and northeastern Albania, primarily inhabited by the Gorani people. Due to geopolitical circumstances, some of the local Gorani people have over time also self declared themselves as Albanians, Macedonians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Turks and Muslims (nationality). Gorani inhabited settlements in Albania and Kosovo are synonymous with the geographical outline of Gora as a region. Between 1992 and 1999, the Gora region in Kosovo was designated as a municipality, and its population was 17,574 people according to the 1991 census. Today in Kosovo, the region is part of Dragaš municipality that includes the Albanian inhabited Opoja region. In Albania, the Gora region is located in Kukës County and parts of it are subdivided in the Shishtavec and Zapod territorial units. Nearby, two Gorani settlements geographically located in the Polog region of North Macedonia are ethnographically and linguistically associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gora (novel)
''Gora'' (Bengali: গোরা) is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set in Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the 1880s during the British Raj. It is the fifth in order of writing and the longest of Tagore’s twelve novels. It is rich in philosophical debate on politics and religion. Other themes include liberation, universalism, brotherhood, gender, feminism, caste, class, tradition versus modernity, urban elite versus rural peasants, colonial rule, nationalism and the Brahmo Samaj. Contents ''Gora'' consists of two parallel love stories of two pairs of lovers: Gora and Sucharita, Binoy and Lolita. Their emotional development is shown in the background of the social and political problems prevalent in India towards the end of the 19th-century. Plot The story mainly revolves around its protagonist, Gormohan alias 'Gora', a staunch Hindu Brahmin. Gora is a young man with a well-built body, good stature, white complexion, and a heavy voice. Because of his physique, he is the head of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
Goparaju Ramachandra Rao (nickname: Gora) (15 November 1902 – 26 July 1975) was an Indian social reformer, atheist activist and a participant in the Indian independence movement. He authored many books on atheism and proposed atheism as self-confidence. He propagated positive atheism by his articles, speeches, books and his social work. He is the founder of Atheist Centre along with his wife Saraswathi Gora and a few volunteers. Social reformer G. Lavanam, politician Chennupati Vidya, and physician G. Samaram are his children. Early days Gora was born on 15 November 1902, into an orthodox Telugu Brahmin family in Chhatrapur, Odisha, India. He pursued a botany degree, eventually earning his Master's in botany at Presidency College in Madras. He married Saraswathi Gora in 1922, when she was only 10. He taught botany at various institutes at Madurai, Coimbatore, Colombo and Kakinada, for fifteen years. Life and work Gora started his activism against superstition in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gora Nad Sodražico
Gora may refer to: *Gora (surname) *'' Gora'', a Bengali novel by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore * Gora (musical instrument) *''G.O.R.A.'', a 2004 Turkish comedy film *Goparaju Ramachandra Rao ("Gora", 1902–1975), Indian social reformer and atheist activist Places *Gora (region), in southern Kosovo and north-eastern Albania * Gora, Croatia, a village near Petrinja, Croatia * Góra (other), places in Poland *Gora, Russia, several rural localities in Russia *Gora (Kakanj), a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Gora (Vogošća), a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Gora, Krško, a settlement in the Municipality of Krško, Slovenia * Gora nad Sodražico (also known as Gora), Slovenia, a community and parish comprising the villages of Betonovo, Kračali, Janeži, Petrinci, and Kržeti * Gora Ardan, a peak in the western plains of Turkmenistan * Gora Cemetery (other) *Gōra Station is a terminal railway station on the Hakone Tozan Line as well as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gora, Russia
Gora (russian: Гора) may refer to several types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural localities in Russia. Moscow Oblast As of 2009, six rural localities in Moscow Oblast bear this name: *Gora, Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Dmitrovsky District *Gora (Davydovskoye Rural Settlement), Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District; municipally a part of Davydovskoye Rural Settlement *Gora (Gorskoye Rural Settlement), Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District; municipally a part of Gorskoye Rural Settlement *Gora, Pavlovo-Posadsky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Pavlovo-Posadsky District *Gora, Shatursky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Shatursky District *Gora, Yegoryevsky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Yegoryevsky District, Moscow Oblast, Yegoryevsky District Perm Krai *Gora, Alexandrovsky District, Perm Krai Vladimir Oblast A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of ''Gitanjali'', he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi. A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district* * * and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gōra Station
is a terminal railway station on the Hakone Tozan Line as well as the Hakone Tozan Cable Car, and is located in Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan. It is 15.0 km from the Hakone Tozan Line's southern terminus at Odawara Station. At an altitude of , it is the highest railway station in Kanagawa Prefecture. Lines Gōra Station is served by the Hakone Tozan Line and also by the Hakone Tozan Cable Car. Station layout Gōra Station has two side platforms, which are staggered, so that they do not directly oppose each other. History Gōra Station was opened on June 1, 1919 as a station on the Hakone Tozan Line. The Hakone Tozan Cable Car began operations from December 1, 1921, but operations were suspended from February 11, 1944 through July 1, 1950. The present station building was opened on April 16, 1977. Bus services *Hakone Tozan Bus **Bus stop 1 *** for Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kowaki-en (transfer for Moto-Hakone ( Lake Ashi) direction), Yunessun, and Ten-yu **Bus stop 2 *** for Gora Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gora (surname)
Gora is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Claudio Gora (1913–1998), Italian actor and director *Jo Ann M. Gora, American president of Ball State University *Pyotr Gora (1922-2002) Hero of the Soviet Union *Ronald Gora (1933–2014), American swimmer *Tahir Aslam Gora, Pakistani-Canadian, author, activist. Founder of TAG TV and host of the show Bilatakalluf. {{surname, Gora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gora, Krško
Gora (; german: Sankt Lorenzberg''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 76.) is a small village in the hills northwest of Leskovec in the Municipality of Krško in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Lower Sava Statistical Region. Name The name of the settlement was changed from ''Gora Svetega Lovrenca'' (literally, 'Mount Saint Lawrence') to ''Gora'' (literally, 'mountain') in 1955. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms. In the past the German name was ''Sankt Lorenzberg''. Church The local church, built in the northern part of the village, is dedicated to Saint Lawrence and belongs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gora Cemetery (other)
Gora Cemetery may refer to *Gora Qabaristan, Karachi *Gora Kabristan, Lahore *Gora Qabristan, Peshawar Gora may refer to: *Gora (surname) *'' Gora'', a Bengali novel by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymat ... * Gora Kabristan, Bairana {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gora (Vogošća)
Gora is a village in Vogošća municipality, near Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H .... Demographics According to the 2013 census, its population was 281. References Populated places in Vogošća {{SarajevoCanton-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gora (Kakanj)
Gora ( Cyrillic: Гора) is a village in the municipality of Kakanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H .... Demographics According to the 2013 census, its population was 248. References Populated places in Kakanj {{ZenicaDobojCanton-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
