Lara may refer to:
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Lara (state)
Lara State ( es, Estado Lara, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela, states of Venezuela. The state capital is Barquisimeto.
Lara State covers a total surface area of and, in 2015, had a census population of 2,019,211.
Toponymy
The state is n ...
, a state in Venezuela
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Electoral district of Lara
Lara is a seat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers much of the area between the western suburbs of Melbourne and the regional city of Geelong. Most of the voters come from the very northern suburbs of Geelong, including Lara, Bell ...
, an electoral district in Victoria, Australia
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Lara, Antalya
Lara is a district of Antalya city, Turkey. Lara is a balneoclimatic and balneoclimateric location bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It is home to many luxury-themed hotels, mainly at the popular Lara Beach area which includes the Lara, Kundu, Aksu ...
, an urban district in Turkey
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Lara, Victoria
Lara is a town in Victoria, 18 km north-east of the Geelong CBD, inland from the Princes Freeway to Melbourne. Its population at the 2016 census was 16,355.
History
The explorers Hume and Hovell arrived at Lara on December 16, 1824, b ...
, a township in Australia
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Lara de los Infantes, a place in Spain
* LARA, the airport code for
Jacinto Lara International Airport
Jacinto Lara International Airport is an airport in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, named after Venezuelan independence hero Jacinto Lara. It serves the city of Barquisimeto and others such as Acarigua, Yaritagua, and Carora, the main cities in the west ...
, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Personal name
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Lara (mythology)
Larunda (also Larunde, Laranda, Lara) was a naiad nymph, daughter of the river Almo in Ovid's ''Fasti''.Ovid, '' Fasti 2''V. 599
Mythology
The only known mythography attached to Lara is little, late and poetic, coming to us from Ovid's ''Fasti ...
, a naiad nymph, daughter of the river Almo in Ovid's ''Fasti''
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Lara (name), can be a given name or a surname in several languages
Art, entertainment, and media
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''Lara'' (film), 2019 film
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Lara (character)
Lara (née Lara Lor-Van) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She first appeared in the ''Superman'' comic strip and was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Lara is the biological mother of Super ...
, the biological mother of the comic book character Superman
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Lara (novel)
''Lara'' is a semi-autobiographical Verse novel, novel-in-verse written by Bernardine Evaristo. It was originally published in 1997 by Angela Royal Publishing and won the Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy, EMMA Best Book Award in 1999. Drawing o ...
, 1997 novel-in-verse by Bernardine Evaristo
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Lara & Reyes
Lara & Reyes is an instrumental group founded by Sergio Lara and Joe Reyes in 1989. It performed flamenco-influenced Latin guitar instrumental pieces. Their first album '' Two Guitars - One Passion'' released in 1992 under Talking Taco Records R ...
, an instrumental band
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Lara's Theme
"Lara's Theme" is the name given to a leitmotif written for the film ''Doctor Zhivago'' (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre. Soon afterward, the leitmotif became the basis of the song "Somewhere, My Love". Numerous versions, both orchestral and voca ...
'', the generic name given to a leitmotif written for the film ''Doctor Zhivago'' (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre
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Lara, A Tale
''Lara, A Tale'' is a rhymed, tragic narrative poem by Lord Byron; first published in 1814.
Background
The first work composed after Byron abandoned the idea of giving up writing and buying back his copyrights, it is regarded by critics as a co ...
'' (1814), a poem by Lord Byron
Computing and technology
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LaRa
Lara may refer to:
Places
* Lara (state), a state in Venezuela
*Electoral district of Lara, an electoral district in Victoria, Australia
* Lara, Antalya, an urban district in Turkey
* Lara, Victoria, a township in Australia
* Lara de los In ...
, a spacecraft instrument on board the ExoMars 2020 platform
Natural science
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''Lara'' (genus), a genus of beetles
* Lara, a cultivar of
walnut
A walnut is the edible seed of a drupe of any tree of the genus ''Juglans'' (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, '' Juglans regia''.
Although culinarily considered a "nut" and used as such, it is not a true ...
Sport
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Brian Lara, former West Indian cricket player
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Cardenales de Lara
The Cardenales de Lara ( en, Lara Cardinals) is a baseball team in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. Founded in 1942 and based in Barquisimeto, the ''Cardenales'' have won six domestic titles, including back-to-back in 1998 and 1999, a ...
, a professional baseball club in Venezuela
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Unión Lara Unión may refer to:
Places
* Unión, Paraguay
* Unión Municipality, Falcón, Venezuela
* Unión, Montevideo, Uruguay
* Unión Cantinil, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
* Unión, San Luis, Argentina
* Unión Department, Córdoba Province, Argentina
* Un ...
, a professional soccer club in Venezuela
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See also
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Lar (disambiguation) Lar or LAR may refer to:
Places
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* Lar, Uttar Pradesh, a town in Deoria District
* Lar (Jammu and Kashmir), a town
* Lata (region), also known as Lar, former region of southern Gujarat
;Iran
* Lar, Iran, a city in Fars Province
* Lar, Eas ...
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Laraha
Laraha (''Citrus × aurantium'' subsp. ''currassuviencis''), or ''Curaçao orange'' (''Citrus aurantium'' var. ''currassuviencis''), is the name of a citrus tree that grows on the island of Curaçao, and also the fruit of this tree. The name is ...
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Lora (disambiguation)
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