Bala may refer to:
Places
India
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Bala, India, a village in Allahabad, India
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Bala, Ahor
Bala is a village and a Gram Panchayat in the Ahore Tehsil of Jalore district of Rajasthan in northwest India.
Geography
Bala is located in Ahor, Tehsil in the Jalore
Jalore () ( ISO 15919 : ''Jālora'' ), also known as '' Granite Cit ...
, a village in the Jalore district of Rajasthan
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Bala, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
Romania
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Bala, Mehedinți, a commune in Mehedinţi County
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Băla ( hu, Bala), a commune in Mureș County
United States
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Bala, Kansas, an incorporated community in Riley County, Kansas
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Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Bala Cynwyd ( ) is a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. It is located on the Philadelphia Main Line in Southeastern Pennsylvania, bordering the western edge of Philadelphia at U.S. Route 1 (City Avenue). It was originally two sep ...
, a conglomerate of the suburbs Bala and Cynwyd, Philadelphia
United Kingdom
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Bala, Gwynedd, a town in Wales
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Bala Lake
Bala Lake ( cy, Llyn Tegid ) is a large freshwater glacial lake in Gwynedd, Wales. The River Dee, which has its source on the slopes of Dduallt in the mountains of Snowdonia, feeds the long by wide lake. It was the largest natural body of ...
, the largest natural lake in Wales
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Bala Series In geology, Caradoc Series is the name introduced by Roderick Murchison in 1839 for the sandstone series of Caer Caradoc in Shropshire, England. It is the fifth of the six subdivisions (in ascending order) of the Ordovician System, comprising all t ...
of geologic beds in Bala, Wales
Elsewhere
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Bala, Ontario, a town in Canada
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Bala Aerodrome
Bala Aerodrome is located adjacent to Bala, Ontario, Canada.
See also
*List of airports in the Bala, Ontario area
The following active airports serve the area around Bala, Ontario, Canada:
See also
* List of airports in the Bracebridge ...
, located adjacent to Bala, Ontario, Canada
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Bala, Nepal, a Village Development Committee in Sankhuwasabha District in northeastern Nepal
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Bal'a
Bal'a ( ar, بلعة) is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate, located approximately nine kilometers northeast of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank and three kilometers away from the highway connecting Tulkarm with Nablus.
According to ...
, Palestine, a town near Tulkarm in the West Bank
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Bala, Russia, a rural locality (a ''selo'') in the Sakha Republic, Russia
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Bala, Senegal Bala is a town in Tambacounda Region, eastern Senegal. It has a station on the main line of the Dakar–Niger Railway.
See also
* Transport in Senegal
* Railway stations in Senegal
List of Railway stations in Senegal include:
Maps
UN Ma ...
, a town in Tambacounda Region
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Balâ, Ankara
Bala is a town and district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, 67 km south-east of the city of Ankara
Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central ...
, a town and district of Ankara Province in Turkey
People
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Bala (name)
Religion
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The Five Strengths, aka ''bala'', the spiritual powers possessed by a Buddha or bodhisattva
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Bala Tripurasundari
Devi Bala Tripurasundari, also known as Bala-Ambika, is the younger aspect of the Hindu Goddess Tripura Sundari one of the ten forms of the Supreme Goddess Mahadevi.
There are 64 forms of Devi Bala and her Bala Tripurasundari form is widely worshi ...
, Hindu female goddess, represented as a small child
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Bala Ganapati
Bala Ganapati ( sa, बाल-गणपति, , literally "child Ganapati") is an aspect of the Hindu god Ganesha (Ganapati), the elephant-headed of wisdom and fortune, depicted as a child.
There are few portrayals of Ganesha as a small boy car ...
, an aspect of the Hindu god Ganesha
Films
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''Bala'' (1976 film), a documentary by Satyajit Ray about the Bharatanatyam dancer Balasaraswati
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''Bala'' (2002 film), an Indian Tamil film starring Shaam and Meera Jasmine
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''Bala'' (2019 film), an Indian Hindi film starring Ayushmann Khurana, Bhumi Pednekar and Yami Gautam
Other
*Princess Bala, a character in the 1998 animated film ''
Antz
''Antz'' is a 1998 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation (in its debut film) and Pacific Data Images and released by DreamWorks Pictures. It was directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson (in their fe ...
''
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Bala (band), a Galician stoner rock/grunge band
*Bala, a comic book character from the ''
Devi'' comic book by Virgin Comics
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Bala language
Bala (''Lobala'') is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to Maho (2009), it includes Boko (''Iboko'').
Distribution and status
Bala is spoken in the northwest corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo west ...
, Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Bala shark (''Balantiocheilos melanopterus''), a semi-aggressive minnow from Southeast Asia, somewhat common as an aquarium fish
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Bala taxation
Bala, Sumerian for "exchange", is the method by which the Ur III dynasty of Mesopotamia collected goods such as livestock, grain, labor and craft products from its provinces. Individuals of all rank were expected to contribute to this system. Thes ...
, a system used in the Ur III dynasty of Mesopotamia
*Bala, a common name for the flowering plant Country Mallow (''
Sida cordifolia
''Sida cordifolia'' ('ilima, flannel weed, bala, country mallow or heart-leaf sida) is a perennial subshrub of the mallow family Malvaceae native to India. It has naturalized throughout the world, and is considered an invasive weed in Africa, Au ...
''), especially when used in Ayurvedic medicine
See also
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Balla (disambiguation)
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Bala station (disambiguation), stations of the name
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Bala Hissar (disambiguation) Bala Hissar, Bala Hisar or Balahisar may refer to:
* Bala Hissar, Kabul, a fortress in Kabul, Afghanistan
* Bala Hissar, Peshawar, a fortress in Peshawar, Pakistan
*Bala Hissar, Mussoorie, a place in Mussoorie, India
* Bala Hisar, Iran
Balut Hesar ...
, places of the name
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