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Places

Bura (Achaea) Bura (also Boura, Bira; grc, Βοῦρα) was an ancient polis (city-state) of Achaea, Greece, one of the 12 cities of the Achaean League. It is said to have derived its name from Bura, a daughter of Ion and Helice. The city was situated on a ...

, a city in Greece *

Boura, Burkina Faso (disambiguation) Boura, Burkina Faso may refer to: * Boura, Boulgou Boura is a village in the Tenkodogo Department of Boulgou Province in south-eastern Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landl ...

, also spelled Bura * Bura, Iran (disambiguation) *

Bura, Taita-Taveta District, Kenya Bura is a town in Taita-Taveta County, Kenya. Location The town is located in Mwatate sub-county, approximately , north-west of Mwatate, where the county headquarters are located. This is about west of Voi, the largest town in the county. Thi ...

Bura, Tana River District, Kenya Bura is a town in Tana River County, Kenya. Location The town lies on the west bank of the Tana River, approximately 50 km north of Hola In molecular biology, the δ (delta) subunit of DNA polymerase III is encoded by the holA gene in ...

People and civilizations

Bura people The Kilba are an ethnic group in the Hong local government area of Adamawa State (formerly Gongola State) in Nigeria. History In the past, Höba lived in large clan-based mountain communities. These mountain communities were Pella, Gwaja, Ho ...

or Kilba, an ethnic group in Nigeria *

Bura language Bura-Pabir (also known as Bura, Burra, Bourrah, Pabir, Babir, Babur, Barburr, Mya Bura, Kwojeffa, Huve, Huviya) is a Chadic language spoken in North-eastern Nigeria by the Babur/Bura people. Dialects are Pela, Bura Pela, Hill Bura, Hyil Hawul, ...

(also Bura-Pabir), a Chadic language spoken in Nigeria *

Bura archaeological site The archeological site of Bura is located in the Tillabéry Region, of the Tera Department, in southwest Niger. The Bura archeological site has given its name to the area's first-millennium Bura culture. Site description The Bura site consis ...

, an ancient and medieval civilization in southwest Niger ** Bura culture, known for ceramics and metallurgy *

John Bura John Bura ( uk, Іван Бура; June 12, 1944 – January 17, 2023) was a bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the United States. He served as the Auxiliary Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia from 2006 to 20 ...

(1944–2023), Ukrainian Greek Catholic prelate in the United States *

Olha Bura Olha Vasylivna Bura ( uk, Ольга Василівна Бура; 22 July 1986 – 10 March 2014) was a Ukrainian activist who took part in the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv from late 2013 to early 2014. Born to a poor family in Busk Raion, she did ...

(1986–2014), Ukrainian activist

Sport and games

Bura (footballer) Miguel Ângelo Marques Granja (born 17 December 1988), known as Bura, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a central defender for C.D. Mafra. He played 55 Primeira Liga matches for Paços de Ferreira, Beira-Mar and Penafiel, but ...

(born 1988), Portuguese footballer *

Bura (water polo club) Bura may refer to: Places * Bura (Achaea), a city in Greece * Boura, Burkina Faso (disambiguation), also spelled Bura * Bura, Iran (disambiguation) * Bura, Taita-Taveta District, Kenya * Bura, Tana River District, Kenya People and civilization ...

, Croatian water polo club *

Bura (card game) Bura ( rus, Бура, ''" cutter"'') is a Russian, Ace-Ten, card game that is "particularly characteristic of Russian prisoners and ex-prisoners. Its alternative name of Thirty-One refers to the combination of three trump cards that wins the game. ...

, a Russian prisoners' card game

Other

* ''Bura'' (beetle), a genus of beetles *

Bura (mythology) In Greek mythology, Bura () ( grc, Βούρα) was a daughter of Ion, son of Xuthus, and Helice. She was the eponym of the city Boura in Achaea. She is possibly the same as Bura, mother of Atrax by Peneus.Stephanus of Byzantium, ''Ethnica'' s.v. ...

, a figure in Greek mythology *

Bura (wind) The bora is a northerly to north-easterly katabatic wind in areas near the Adriatic Sea. Similar nomenclature is used for north-eastern winds in other littoral areas of eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea basins. Name It is known in Greek as (' ...

, the Serbo-Croatian name for the bora wind in the northern Mediterranean * Bura Irrigation and Settlement Project (Kenya), a large irrigation project * BURA (information technology),

Backup In information technology, a backup, or data backup is a copy of computer data taken and stored elsewhere so that it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form, referring to the process of doing so, is "back up", w ...

, Recovery and Archiving * BURA (Brunel University Research Archives) at

Brunel University London Brunel University London is a Public university, public Research universities, research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It was founded in 1966 and named after the Victorian era, Victorian engineer and pioneer of the I ...

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