Buna may refer to:
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Buna village
Buna (Serbian Cyrillic: Буна) is a populated settlement at the confluence of the Buna river and Neretva river some 10 km downstream the Neretva and south of Mostar, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The famous source of the ...
, a small Bosnia and Herzegovina village at the confluence of the Buna and Neretva rivers
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Buna, Kenya
Buna is a small town and Sub-County in Wajir County, situated in the North Eastern Province in Kenya. Nearby towns and places include Ajao and Bute Helu.
History
Buna historically is remembered as the deepest point of penetration by the Itali ...
, captured by Italy in the East African Campaign
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Bouna, Ivory Coast
Bouna (also spelled Buna) is a town in north-eastern Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Bouna Department. It is also the seat of Bounkani Region in Zanzan District and a commune.
Near Bouna is the Comoé National Park and the ...
or Buna
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Buna, Papua New Guinea
Buna is a village in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. It was the site in part, of the Battle of Buna–Gona during World War II, when it constituted a variety of native huts and a handful of houses with an airstrip. Buna was the trailhead to the Ko ...
, a village in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea
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Buna Airfield, an aerodrome located near Buna, Papua New Guinea
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Buna, Texas
Buna ( ) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jasper County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,137 at the 2020 census.
History
The Beaumont Lumber Company mill in southern Jasper County was first called " ...
, a census-designated place in Jasper County
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Bună Ziua, Cluj-Napoca, a housing district in Romania
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Monowitz concentration camp
Monowitz (also known as Monowitz-Buna, Buna and Auschwitz III) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp (''Arbeitslager'') run by Nazi Germany in Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), occupied Poland from 1942–1945, during World War II and t ...
, or Buna, a Nazi concentration camp run during WWII
Rivers and other waterbodies
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Bojana (river)
The Bojana ( cnr, Бојана), also known as the Buna ( sq, Bunë), is a river in Albania and Montenegro which flows into the Adriatic Sea. An outflow of Lake Skadar, measured from the source of the lake's longest tributary, the Morača, t ...
(Albanian: ), in Albania and Montenegro
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Buna (Neretva)
The Buna (Serbian Cyrillic: Буна) is a short river in Bosnia and Herzegovina; it is a left bank tributary of the Neretva. Its source (Vrelo Bune), a strong karstic spring, is near the village Blagaj, southeast of Mostar. It is best known fo ...
, a Neretva tributary in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Buna Bay
Buna Bay is a bay and port on the southeast coast of Papua New Guinea. An important shipping port, it was developed for the purpose of transporting agricultural products overseas. The Sangara plantations of coffee, rubber and sugar
Sugar i ...
, a bay and port of Papua New Guinea
Languages
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Buna language
Buna is a Torricelli language of Marienberg Rural LLG, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
There are two dialects. One dialect is spoken in Kasmin (), Boig (), Waskurin (), and Arapang () villages, and another in Masan, Mangan (), and Gari ...
, a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea
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Mbum language
Mbum Proper (also Mboum, Buna, Mboumtiba and Wuna) is a Adamawa–Ubangi language of Central Africa. It is spoken by about people in Cameroon and the Central African Republic.
History
The Mbum language is spoken by the Mbum people who inhabit ...
or Buna language, an Adamawa language of Cameroon
Rubber
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Buna rubber
Polybutadiene utadiene rubber BRis a synthetic rubber. Polybutadiene rubber is a polymer formed from the polymerization of the monomer 1,3-butadiene. Polybutadiene has a high resistance to wear and is used especially in the Tire manufacturi ...
, tradename for Polybutadiene, a synthetic rubber
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Buna Werke Schkopau
Buna Werke Schkopau were a chemical company specialising in the production of polymer materials such as plastics and artificial rubber. The name BUNA is derived from the technology of polymerising butadiene with sodium (chemical symbol: Na) as a c ...
, a former IG Farben synthetic rubber plant near Halle (Saale), Germany, later
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Monowitz Buna Werke
Monowitz (also known as Monowitz-Buna, Buna and Auschwitz III) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp (''Arbeitslager'') run by Nazi Germany in Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), occupied Poland from 1942–1945, during World War II and t ...
, a former IG Farben synthetic rubber plant with an attached Nazi German labor camp near Oswiecim, Poland
Ships
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HMAS ''Buna'' (L 132), a ''Balikpapan''-class heavy landing craft operated by the Royal Australian Navy
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JDS ''Buna'' (PF-294), a ''Tacoma''-class frigate operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
People
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Buna Lawrie
Coloured Stone is an Aboriginal Australian band whose members originate from the Koonibba Mission, west of Ceduna, South Australia. The band performs using guitar, bass, drums, and Aboriginal instruments – didjeridu, bundawuthada (gong st ...
, an Australian Aboriginal musician
Other uses
* ''Buna maflat'', the Ethiopian
coffee ceremony
Coffee ceremony of Ethiopia and Eritrea is a core cultural custom in Ethiopia and Eritrea. There is a routine of serving coffee daily, mainly for the purpose of getting together with relatives, neighbors, or other visitors. If coffee is politely ...
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HD 16175
HD 16175 is a 7th magnitude G-type star with temperature about 6000 K located approximately 196 light-years away in the Andromeda constellation. This star is only visible through binoculars or better equipment; it is also 3.3 times mor ...
or Buna, a star
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Fagus crenata
''Fagus crenata'', known as the Siebold's beech, Japanese beech, or buna, is a deciduous tree of the beech genus, ''Fagus'', of the family Fagaceae. Distribution and habitat
It is endemic to Japan, where it is widespread and often one of the do ...
'' or buna, a deciduous tree of the beech family
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Sac de gemecs
The ''sac de gemecs'' (; literally "bag of moans", also known as ''buna'' in Andorra or ''coixinera'' , ''gaita'' or ''botella'' ) is a type of bagpipe found in Catalonia (eastern Spain spilling over into southern France).
The instrument consist ...
'' (Andorran: ''Buna''), a type of bagpipe in Catalonia
See also
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