Dura may also refer to:
Đura
Đura ( sr-Cyrl, Ђура; also transliterated Djura) is a Serbian male given name derived from ''Đurađ'' (a Serbian variant of ''George'').
It may refer to:
* Đura Dokić (1873–1946), a Serbian general, notable for being an Axis collabora ...
such as, for example,
Đura Bajalović
Đura Bajalović also spelled Djura Bajalović (Šabac, Serbia, 13 February 1879 – Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 5 May 1949) was one of the leading Belgrade architects of art nouveau in Serbian architecture at the turn of the 19th century. He w ...
Geography
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Dura language
Dura is a recently extinct language of Nepal. It has been classified in the West Bodish branch of Tibetan languages, though more recent work separates it out as an independent branch of Sino-Tibetan. Many of the Dura have switched to speaking N ...
, a critically endangered language of Nepal
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Dura, Africa
Dura was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Dura was among the many cities in the Roman province of Byzacena that became a suffragan diocese. Its precise Roman location, in p ...
, an ancient city and former bishopric, now a Catholic titular see
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Dura-Europos
Dura-Europos, ; la, Dūra Eurōpus, ( el, Δούρα Ευρωπός, Doúra Evropós, ) was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates river. It is located near the vill ...
, an ancient city located in modern-day Syria, founded in 303 BCE and abandoned in 256–257 CE
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Dora, Baghdad
Dora (also al-Dura, or ad-Durah, ar, الدورة) is a neighborhood in Al Rashid administrative district, southern Baghdad, Iraq. Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it was home to the city's largest concentration of Christian Assyrians, as well ...
, alternately transliterated "al-Dura", a neighborhood in the Rasheed administrative district in Southern Baghdad, Iraq
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Dura, Hebron
Dura ( ar, دورا) is a Palestinian city located eleven kilometers southwest of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a pop ...
, a Palestinian town in the southern West Bank located eleven kilometers southwest of Hebron in the Hebron Governorate
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Dura, Manyas
Dura is a village in the Manyas district of Balıkesir province
Balıkesir Province ( tr, ) is a province in northwestern Turkey with coastlines on both the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea, Aegean. Its adjacent provinces are Çanakkale Pr ...
, a village in Turkey
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Dura al-Qar'
Dura al-Qar' ( ar, دورا القرع) or Dura al-Qari'a is a Palestinian town in the central West Bank, part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Dura al-Qar' had a population of 2,8 ...
, a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate
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Cișmigiu Gardens
The Cișmigiu Gardens or Cișmigiu Park ( ro, Grădinile Cișmigiu or Parcul Cișmigiu, links=) are a public park in the center of Bucharest, Romania, spanning areas on all sides of an artificial lake. The gardens' creation was an important mom ...
, originally named "Lake of Dura the merchant", a public park near the center of Bucharest, Romania that surrounds an artificial lake
Science
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Dura mater
In neuroanatomy, dura mater is a thick membrane made of dense irregular connective tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. It is the outermost of the three layers of membrane called the meninges that protect the central nervous system. ...
, the outermost of the three ('hard', ''dura'' in Latin) layers of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord
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''Dura'' (moth), a genus of moths
Other
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"Dura" (song), Daddy Yankee
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Dura Dura
Emrah Erdoğan İpek (born January 1, 1971) is a Turkish singer, actor and child star during 1980's.
Life and Career
He was born in Ergani,Diyarbakir, Diyarbakır. he professionally entered the music world with his album ''Ağam Ağam'' durin ...
'', Turkish album
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Dura Automotive Systems Dura Automotive Systems (or Dura) is an independent designer and manufacturer of automotive components, including control systems, exterior systems and lightweight structural systems. Dura markets its automotive products to every North American, As ...
, an American automotive company headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan and specializing in automobile components
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