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Tangra (other)
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Tangra may refer to: * ''Tangra'', the Bulgarian name of Tengri, the deity of Tengriism * Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island, Antarctica, named after the deity ** Tangra 2004/05, an expedition to Antarctica * Tangra (band), a Bulgarian band from the 1970s and 1980s * Tangra, Kolkata, a neighborhood in the city of Kolkata in West Bengal, India *WASP-21, a star named Tangra after the deity See also * Tangara (other) Tangara may refer to: * ''Tangara'' (bird), a genus of birds * Aerotec A-132 Tangará, a Brazilian military trainer aircraft * Tangará da Serra, a town in Mato Grosso, Brazil * Tangará, Rio Grande do Norte, a town in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tengri
Tengri ( zh, 騰格里; otk, 𐰚𐰇𐰚:𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃, Kök Teŋri/Teŋiri, lit=Blue Heaven; Old Uyghur: ''tängri''; Middle Turkic: تآنغرِ; ky, теңир; tr, Tanrı; az, Tanrı; bg, Тангра; Proto-Turkic *''teŋri / *taŋrɨ''; Mongolian script: , ''T'ngri''; Modern Mongolian: Тэнгэр, ''Tenger''; Uyghur: تەڭرى ''tengri'' ) is the All-Encompassing God of Heaven in the traditional Turko-Mongolian religious beliefs. It is also one of the names for the primary chief deity of the early Turkic and Mongolic peoples. Worship of Tengri is Tengrism. The core beings in Tengrism are the Heavenly-Father (Tengri/Tenger Etseg) and the Earth Mother ( Eje/Gazar Eej). It involves shamanism, animism, totemism and ancestor worship. Name The oldest form of the name is recorded in Chinese annals from the 4th century BC, describing the beliefs of the Xiongnu. It takes the form 撑犁/''Cheng-li'', which is hypothesized to be a Chinese transcription of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangra Mountains
Tangra Mountains (in Bulgarian ''Тангра планина'', 'Tangra planina' \'tan-gra pla-ni-'na\) () form the principal mountain range of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The range had been nameless until 2001, when it was named after Tangra, "the name of the ancient Bulgarian god." Composite Antarctic Gazetteer. Tangra Mountains are long between |
Tangra 2004/05
The Tangra 2004/05 Expedition was commissioned by the Antarctic Place-names Commission at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, managed by the Manfred Wörner Foundation, and supported by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgarian Posts, Uruguayan Antarctic Institute, Peregrine Shipping (Australia), and Petrol Ltd, TNT, Mtel, Bulstrad, Polytours, B. Bekyarov and B. Chernev (Bulgaria). Expedition team Dr. Lyubomir Ivanov (team leader), senior research associate, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; chairman, Antarctic Place-names Commission; author of the 1995 Bulgarian Antarctic ''Toponymic Guidelines'' introducing in particular the present official system for the Romanization of Bulgarian; participant in four Bulgarian Antarctic campaigns, and author of the first Bulgarian Antarctic topographic maps. Doychin Vas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangra (band)
Tangra (Bulgarian:Тангра) is a Bulgarian rock band founded in 1976 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The group is one of the most popular Bulgarian rock bands from the '80s, '90s and nowadays. History Founders of the band are the musicians: Borislav Panov (keyboard) former member of "Shturcite" band who gave the name "TANGRA" to the band, Konstantin Markov (bass guitar), Alexander Petrunov (vocal), Vasil Naydenov (piano) and Marcel Baruch (drums). The band accompanied the singers Yordanka Hristova, Bogdana Karadocheva and other pop singers in their concerts. In 1978 they released the band's first album with the songs "Ако имаш време"(If You have time) and "Пътища"(Roads). In 1979, Cvetan Vladovski was invited to be the new vocalist of the group. Anton Bubev was drummer after Marcel Baruch left the band. Since 1981 Emil Gerasimov has been the band's drummer. The release of the LP ''Nashiat Grad'' in 1982 brought national recognition and put the band on the map. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangra, Kolkata
Tangra is a region in East Kolkata that traditionally housed many tanneries owned by people of Hakka Chinese origin. Overview "47 South Tangra Road", may be the most confusing postal address, as it used to cover the whole of Chinatown Tangra with over 350 tanneries. Most of the standing structures have been built, over many years, by the industrious Hakka Chinese, upon marshy and reclaimed low-lying land. Over the past several decades, it has served as the location of Calcutta's Chinatown. This is not a coincidence; the Hakka Chinese of Calcutta have gradually turned this part of the Kolkata into an important destination for sourcing finished and semi-finished leather. The Hakka Chinese specialized in the manufacture of leather and turned it into one of the major industries of West Bengal, providing employment to tens of thousands of local inhabitants. In addition to the huge volume of exports to the developing and developed countries, finished leather is supplied to the major sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WASP-21
WASP-21 is a G-type star ( spectral type G3V) that is reaching the end of its main sequence lifetime approximately 850 light years from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus. The star is relatively metal-poor, having 40% of heavy elements compared to the Sun. Kinematically, WASP-21 belongs to the thick disk of the Milky Way. It has an exoplanet named WASP-21b. The survey in 2012 have failed to find any stellar companions to WASP-21. Naming In 2019 the WASP-21 system was chosen as part of the NameExoWorlds campaign organised by the International Astronomical Union, which assigned each country a star and planet to be named. WASP-21 was assigned to Bulgaria. The winning proposal named the star Tangra after a deity worshipped by the early Bulgars, and the planet Bendida after a deity worshipped by the Thracians. Planetary System In 2010 WASP-21 was discovered to host a hot Jupiter type planet by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP). and confirmed by radial vel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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