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Settlements

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Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam (; from ar, دَار السَّلَام, Dâr es-Selâm, lit=Abode of Peace) or commonly known as Dar, is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania. It is also the capital of Dar es Salaam Region. With a population of over s ...
, the largest city of Tanzania and East Africa * Dar, Azerbaijan, a village * Dar, Iran, a village


People

* Dar (tribe), a Kashmiri tribe in India and Pakistan *
Aleem Dar Aleem Dar PP ( Punjabi, ur, ; born 6 June 1968) is a Pakistani cricket umpire and former cricketer. He is a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires. He won the David Shepherd Trophy three years in a row from 2009 to 2011, after being nomin ...
, Pakistani cricketer and international umpire *
Ami Dar Ami Dar ( he, עמי דר; born January 7, 1961) is the founder and executive director of Idealist.org. Idealist serves more than 120,000 organizations around the world and has more than 1.4 million visitors every month between the English site ...
, Israeli-American nonprofit leader *
Asif Dar Asif Kamran Dar (born April 16, 1966) is a former boxer from Pakistan, competing in the lightweight (– 60 kg) division. He was born in Quetta. A resident of Toronto, Ontario he represented Pakistan at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los ...
, Pakistani-Canadian boxer *
Abdul Majeed Dar Abdul Majeed Dar was a leader of the people of Kashmir and the former chief commander of the militant group Hizbul Mujahideen in Jammu and Kashmir (state), Jammu & Kashmir till 2001. He has been described as a "sane voice in Jammu and Kashmir (st ...
, commander of Hizbul Mujahideen * Igal Dar (1936–1977), Israeli basketball player *
Mukhtar Dar Mukhtar Dar is a Pakistani-born photographer, painter, filmmaker and activist. He became a founding member of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement in the 1980s in England, and later joined the Birmingham Asian Youth Movement. Dar has served as Direct ...
, Pakistani-born artist and activist *
Noam Dar Noam Dar (; born 28 July 1993) is an Israeli-Scottish professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, and is a record setting two-time NXT UK Heritage Cup Champion. He also wrestles for Scottish promotion Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW ...
, Israeli-Scottish professional wrestler * William Dar (born 1953), Filipino horticulturist and government administrator * Dar Lyon, an English first-class cricketer *
Dar Robinson Dar Allen Robinson (March 26, 1947 – November 21, 1986) was an American stunt performer and actor. Robinson broke 19 world records and set 21 "world's firsts." He invented the decelerator (use of dragline cables rather than airbags for a ...
, American stunt performer and actor *
Dar Williams Dorothy Snowden "Dar" Williams (born April 19, 1967) is an American pop folk singer-songwriter from Mount Kisco, New York. Hendrik Hertzberg of ''The New Yorker'' has described Williams as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters." She i ...
, folk-pop artist


Fictional characters

* Dar, the main character in the 1982 fantasy film ''
The Beastmaster ''The Beastmaster'' is a 1982 sword and sorcery film directed by Don Coscarelli and starring Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, John Amos and Rip Torn. Loosely based on the 1959 novel ''The Beast Master'' by Andre Norton, the film is about a man wh ...
'' and the 1999–2002 Canadian ''Beastmaster '' TV series *
Dar Adal This is a list of characters appearing in the Showtime drama television series ''Homeland''. Appearances : = Main cast (credited) : = Recurring cast (3+) : = Guest cast (1-2) Main cast Recurring cast ;Notes Main characters The foll ...
, one of the main characters in the TV series ''Homeland''


Acronyms

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dar (disk archiver) dar (disk archive) is a computer program, a command-line archiving tool intended as a replacement for tar in Unix-like operating systems. Features * Support for slices, archives split over multiple files of a particular size * Option of delet ...
, a disk archiving tool similar to tar *
Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnitsa Darzhavna aeroplanna rabotilnitsa (''Държавна аеропланна работилница'' - State Aircraft Workshops), abbreviated DAR (''ДАР''), was the first Bulgarian aircraft manufacturer, established in 1924 at Bojourishte. Hi ...
(Държавната аеропланна работилница) or DAR (ДАР), a Bulgarian aircraft manufacturer *
Daughters of the American Revolution The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in the United States' efforts towards independence. A non-profit group, they promote ...
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Definite article reduction Definite article reduction (DAR) is the term used in recent linguistic work to refer to the use of vowel-less forms of the definite article ''the'' in Northern dialects of English English, for example in the Yorkshire dialect. DAR is often represen ...
, a linguistic phenomenon *
Department of Agrarian Reform The Department of Agrarian Reform ( fil, Kagawaran ng Repormang Pansakahan}, abbreviated as DAR or KRP) is an executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the redistribution of agrarian land in the Philippines. List of th ...
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Designated Airworthiness Representative A Designated Airworthiness Representative (DAR) is a private person designated by the United States Federal Aviation Administration to act on its behalf in the certification of type certificated and amateur-built aircraft for the issuance of airwor ...
, a person authorized to issue Airworthiness Certificates in the United States *
Digital Assets Repository The Digital Assets Repository ( ar, مستودع الأصول الرقمية or ''DAR'') is a system developed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) by the International School of Information Science (ISIS) to create and maintain digital library colle ...
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Dominion Atlantic Railway The Dominion Atlantic Railway was a historic railway which operated in the western part of Nova Scotia in Canada, primarily through an agricultural district known as the Annapolis Valley. The Dominion Atlantic Railway was unusually diverse for a ...
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Display aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a display device is the proportional relationship between the width and the height of the display. It is expressed as two numbers separated by a colon (''x'':''y''), where ''x'' corresponds to the width and ''y'' to the heigh ...


Other uses

* Дар, Russian title of Vladimir Nabokov's book '' The Gift'' * ''DAR!'', an autobiographical webcomic by
Erika Moen Erika Moen (born 1983) is an People of the United States, American comic book artist, known for her Autobiographical comics, autobiographical comic ''DAR'', and the educational/Erotic comics, erotic comic ''Oh Joy, Sex Toy''. Biography Moen was b ...
* DAR, IATA airport code of
Julius Nyerere International Airport Julius Nyerere International Airport is the international airport of Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania. It is located approximately southwest of the city centre. The airport has flights to destinations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and ...
, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania * dar, ISO 639-3 code for the
Dargwa language Dargwa (, ''dargan mez'') is a Northeast Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Dargins, Dargin people in the Russian republic Dagestan. It is the literary and main dialect of the dialect continuum constituting the Dargin ...


See also

* Darr (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo, given name, surname Hebrew unisex given names