Taran may refer to:
Places
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Tarane, village in northern Lebanon
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Taran, Bulgaria, a village in
Smolyan
Smolyan ( bg, Смолян) List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, is a town and ski resort in the south of Bulgaria near the border with Greece. It is the administrative and industrial centre of the homonymous Smolyan Province. The town is built ...
municipality
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Taran, Iran (disambiguation), several places in Iran
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Taran District
Beimbet Mailin ( kk, Таран ауданы, ) previously Taran is a district of Kostanay Region in northern Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and pa ...
, the name of a district of Kazakhstan; also, the capital of Taran District
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Taran Plateau
Taran Plateau ( bg, Търънско плато, ‘Taransko Plato’ \t&-'r&n-sko 'pla-to\) is the ice-covered plateau of elevation 1100 to 1700 m , Antarctica
People
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Taran (name), includes people with the given name and surname
Other uses
* ''Taran'', Russian term for
aerial ramming
Aerial ramming or air ramming is the ramming of one aircraft with another. It is a last-ditch tactic in air combat, sometimes used when all else has failed. Long before the invention of aircraft, ramming tactics in naval warfare and ground warfare ...
in wartime
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Welsh god, associated with the Gaulish
Taranis
In Celtic mythology, Taranis (Proto-Celtic: *''Toranos'', earlier ''*Tonaros''; Latin: Taranus, earlier Tanarus) is the god of thunder, who was worshipped primarily in Gaul, Hispania, Britain, and Ireland, but also in the Rhineland and Danube reg ...
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Rutilus heckelii'' or ''taran'', a species of fish commonly known as roaches
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Taran (character), the main character in ''The Chronicles of Prydain'' books
** The character appears in Disney's adaptation, ''
The Black Cauldron''
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SU-152 "Taran"
The Object 120 SU-152 "Taran" ( rus, СУ-152 «Таран») was a fully enclosed Soviet tank destroyer built in 1965, that never progressed past the experimental stage.
History
In the early 1960s, the Soviet military concluded that the armor- ...
, a 1965 experimental Russian tank destroyer
See also
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Taran Taran (disambiguation)
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Tarn Taran (disambiguation)
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Tarana (disambiguation)
Tarana is a type of composition in Indian classical vocal music.
Tarana may also refer to:
Places
*Tarana, New South Wales, a small town in New South Wales
**Tarana railway station, station on the Main Western line in New South Wales, Australia ...
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Taranis (disambiguation)
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