Mina may refer to:
Places
Iran
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Minaq
Minaq ( fa, مينق, also Romanized as Mīnaq and Meynaq; also known as Meyna, Mīna, and Minar) is a village in Bedevostan-e Sharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Heris County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Iran, off ...
, East Azerbaijan
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Mina, Fars
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Mineh, Lorestan Province
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Mina, Razavi Khorasan
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Mehneh, Razavi Khorasan Province
United States
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Mina, California
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Mina, Nevada
Mina is a census-designated place in Mineral County in west-central Nevada, United States. It is located along U.S. Route 95 (38° 23' 25" N 118° 06' 30" W) at an elevation of . The 2010 population was 155.
History
Mina was founded as a railro ...
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Mina, New York
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Mina, Ohio
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Mina, South Dakota
Ports
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Al-Mina
:'' Al Mina, Tyre is a spectacular and more familiar Roman site near Tyre.''
Al-Mina (Arabic: "the port") is the modern name given by Leonard Woolley to an ancient trading post on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria, in the estuary of the ...
, a modern name given to an ancient coast settlement in Syria
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El Mina, Lebanon, the original site of the harbor of the Phoenician city of Tripoli
Elsewhere
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Elmina
Elmina, also known as Edina by the local Fante, is a town and the capital of the Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District on the south coast of Ghana in the Central Region, situated on a bay on the Atlantic Ocean, west of Cape Coast. Elmina w ...
, Ghana, a modern town which grew around the first European settlement in sub-Saharan Africa
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Mina 3, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
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Mina, Burkina Faso, village in Balé Province, Burkina Faso
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Mina, Iloilo, a municipality in Iloilo, Philippines
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Mina, Nuevo León, a municipality in Nuevo León, Mexico
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Mina, Saudi Arabia
Mina ( ar, مِنَى, translit=Minā), also known as Muna ( ar, مُنَى, Munā), and commonly known as the "City of Tents" is a valley and neighborhood located in the Masha'er district in the Makkah Province of Saudi Arabia, southeast of the ...
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Mina River (Indonesia)
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Abu Dhabi Vegetable Market
The Abu Dhabi Vegetable Market (aka Al Mina Fruit & Vegetable Market or Souk) is the main vegetable market in central Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
As well as stalls selling fresh fruit and vegetables in general, the market also features a r ...
or Al Mina Fruit & Vegetable Market, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Languages
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Hina language, a language of Cameroon
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Gen language
Gen (also called Gɛ̃, Gɛn gbe, Gebe, Guin, Mina, Mina-Gen, and Popo) is a Gbe language spoken in the southeast of Togo in the Maritime Region. Like the other Gbe languages, Gen is a tonal language.
History
The Gen-Mina originated from Ac ...
or Mina, the language of the Mina people in the southern Togo
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Mina (Louisiana)
The Mina were a well-organized African-American community of people in Louisiana enslaved from the Bight of Benin
The Bight of Benin or Bay of Benin is a bight in the Gulf of Guinea area on the western African coast that derives its name from t ...
, a language community in Louisiana
People
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Mina (given name)
Mina is a given name with a variety of origins, used as a feminine name in some cultures and a masculine name in others.
Egypt
Mina, Coptic Μήνης is a male given name for Egyptian Coptic Christians.
Mina in the Coptic language (derived fr ...
, a given name (and list of people and characters with that name)
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Mina (surname) Mina is a surname.
People bearing the name include:
* Ara Mina, Filipina actress
* Denise Mina, Scottish crime writer
* Francisco Espoz y Mina, Spanish general, uncle of Francisco Javier Mina
* Francisco Javier Mina, Spanish soldier who fought i ...
, a surname (and list of people with that name)
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Mina (Italian singer)
Mina Anna Maria Mazzini (born 25 March 1940) or Mina Anna Quaini (for the Swiss civil registry), known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian-Swiss singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian ...
(born 1940), Italian singer
* ''Mena'', an alternate transliteration of
Meena
Meena () is a sub-group of Bhils. They speak Meena language. They started adopting the Brahmin worship system. Its name is also transliterated as ''Meenanda'' or ''Mina''. Historians claim that they belong to the Matsya tribe. They got the st ...
, a tribe in the Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh regions of India
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Mina (German singer)
Mina (born 4 October 1993) is a German pop musician who became famous because of a video at the online portal Myvideo which was watched by four million viewers.
Biography
Mina was born in Munich, where she attended a private school. When she ...
(born 1993), German pop musician
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Mina (Japanese singer) (born 1997), member of South Korean girl group Twice
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Mina (voice actress)
, known professionally as , is a Japanese voice actress from Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. She is affiliated with Production Ace.
Career
In 2006, she won the Animax public audition and made her debut as voice actress. She has a wide vocal ran ...
(born 1984), Japanese voice actress
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Kang Mi-na
Kang Mi-na (; born December 4, 1999), known mononymously as Mina, is a South Korean singer, rapper and actress signed under Jellyfish Entertainment. She is best known for finishing ninth in Mnet's K-pop girl group survival show ''Produce 101'' ...
(born 1999), South Korean singer known sometimes as “Mina”
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Shim Mina
Shim Mina (; born December 1, 1972), known simply as Mina (미나), is a South Korean singer and dancer. She rose to fame at the World Cup in 2002, eventually deciding to become a K-pop singer.
On July 7, 2018, Mina married Ryu Philip, a me ...
, South Korean singer performing as "Mina"
Fictional characters
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Mina (''Dragonlance''), a herald of the One God in ''Dragonlance''
* Mina, a Trial Captain in ''
Pokémon Sun and Moon
and are 2016 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. They are the first installments in the seventh generation of the ''Pokémon'' video game series. First a ...
'' and ''
Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon
and are 2017 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. Part of the seventh generation of the ''Pokémon'' video game series, the games are enhanced versions o ...
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* Mina in ''
Karakai Jozu no Takagi-san
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sōichirō Yamamoto. The series features the daily life of Takagi, who loves to tease her classmate Nishikata, and Nishikata's failed attempts to get back at her. In North America, the ...
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Music
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''Mina'' (1964 album)
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''Mina'' (1971 album)
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''Mina'' (1974 album)
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Mina (drum), a Venezuelan drum
MINA
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Montenegrin News Agency, Montenegrin national news agency
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MINA (gene)
Ribosomal oxygenase 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''RIOX2'' gene
In biology, the word gene (from , ; "...Wilhelm Johannsen coined the word gene to describe the Mendelian units of heredity..." meaning ''generation'' or '' ...
, a gene which encodes RIOX2, formerly known as MYC-induced nuclear antigen
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Apache MINA
Apache MINA (Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Applications) is an open source Java network application framework. MINA can be used to create scalable, high performance network applications. MINA provides unified APIs for various transpor ...
, Apache Software Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Application
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Mīna
Mīna, or Meena, is a month in the Indian solar calendar. It corresponds to the zodiacal sign of Pisces, and overlaps with about the later half of March and about the early half of April in the Gregorian calendar. First day of the Meena month, ca ...
, a month in the Hindu calendar
* Mina, a month in the
Darian calendar
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Mina (unit) The mina (also mĕnē, Aramaic; ) is an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight, which was divided into 60 shekels. The mina, like the shekel, was also a unit of currency.
History
The word mina comes from the ancient Semitic root / 'to count', Akkad ...
, an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight and currency
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''Mina'' (TV series), a Korean drama
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Mina (Mexico City Metrobús), a BRT station in Mexico City
See also
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Meena (disambiguation)
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Mena (disambiguation)
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Menas (disambiguation)
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Mene (disambiguation)
''Mene'' is a genus of fish.
Mene may also refer to:
Mythology
*Selene, the Greek moon-goddess and personification of the Moon
*Mene (goddess), another name for Selene as the goddess presiding over the months
People with the surname
*Bernice Me ...
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Menes
Menes (fl. c. 3200–3000 BC; ; egy, mnj, probably pronounced *; grc, Μήνης) was a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt and as the founder of the ...
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fl. c. 3100 BC), Egyptian pharaoh
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Minas (disambiguation)
Minas or MINAS may refer to:
People with the given name Minas
* Menas of Ethiopia (died 1563)
* Saint Menas (Minas, 285–309)
* Minias of Florence (Minas, Miniato, died 250)
* Minas Alozidis (born 1984), Greek hurdler
* Minas Avetisyan (1928 ...
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Myna (disambiguation)
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