Bura may refer to:
Nature
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Bura (wind)
The bora is a northerly to north-easterly katabatic wind in areas near the Adriatic Sea. Similar nomenclature is used for north-eastern winds in other littoral areas of eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea basins.
Name
It is known in Greek langua ...
, the Croatian name for the bora wind in the northern Mediterranean
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''Bura'' (beetle), a genus of beetles
Places
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Bura (Achaea)
Bura (also Boura, Bira; ) was an ancient polis (city-state) of Achaea, Greece, one of the 12 cities of the Achaean League.
It is said to have derived its name from Bura, a daughter of Ion and Helice.
The city was situated on a height 40 stadia ...
, a city in Greece
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Boura, Burkina Faso (disambiguation) Boura, Burkina Faso may refer to:
* Boura, Boulgou, a village in the Tenkodogo Department of Boulgou Province
* Boura Department
Boura is a department or commune of Sissili Province in southern Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked co ...
, also spelled Bura
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Bura, Taita-Taveta District, Kenya
Bura is a town in Taita-Taveta County, Kenya.
Location
The town is located in Mwatate sub-county, approximately , north-west of Mwatate, where the county headquarters are located. This is about west of Voi, the largest town in the county. T ...
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Bura, Tana River District, Kenya
Bura is a town in Tana River County, Kenya.
Location
The town lies on the west bank of the Tana River, approximately 50 km north of Hola, the headquarters of Tana River County. It is about 100 km south of Garissa
Garissa ( Arabic: ...
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Bura (lake)
Bura (; ) is a salt lake in Sharbakty District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan, with a small part in Kulundinsky District, Altai Krai, Russia.
Lake Bura is located at the Russia-Kazakhstan border, to the east of Syntas village and approximately ...
, a lake in Kazakhstan and Russia
People and civilizations
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Bura people
The Kilba people (also called Həba) are an ethnic group in the Hong, Nigeria, Hong local government area of Adamawa State (formerly Gongola State) in Nigeria.
History
In the past, Həba lived in large clan-based mountain communities. These m ...
or Kilba, an ethnic group in Nigeria
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Bura language
Bura (also known as Burah, Burra, Bourrah, Bura-Pabir, Babir, Babur, Barburr, Mya Bura, Kwojeffa, Huve, Huviya) is a Chadic language spoken in North-eastern Nigeria by the Bura-Pabir people. Dialects include Pela, Bura Pela, Hill Bura, Hyil H ...
(also Bura-Pabir), a Chadic language spoken in Nigeria
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Bura archaeological site The archaeological site of Bura is located in the Tillabéry Region, of the Tera Department, in southwest Niger. The Bura archaeological site has given its name to the area's first-millennium Bura culture.
Site description
The Bura site consi ...
, an ancient and medieval civilization in southwest Niger
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Bura culture
The Bura culture (Bura system) refers to a set of archeological sites in the lower Niger River valley of Niger and Burkina Faso. More specifically, the Iron Age civilization exemplified by the Bura culture was centered in the southwest portion o ...
, known for ceramics and metallurgy
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John Bura
John Bura (; June 12, 1944 – January 17, 2023) was a bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the United States. He served as the Auxiliary Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia from 2006 to 2019. From 2009 to 2014 ...
(1944–2023), Ukrainian Greek Catholic prelate in the United States
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Olha Bura
Olha Vasylivna Bura (; 22 July 1986 – 10 March 2014) was a Ukrainian activist who took part in the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv from late 2013 to early 2014. Born to a poor family in Busk Raion, she did not have a permanent place to work due to ...
(1986–2014), Ukrainian activist
Sport and games
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Bura (footballer)
Miguel Ângelo Marques Granja (born 17 December 1988), known as Bura, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a central defender for U.D. Leiria.
He played 55 Primeira Liga matches for Paços de Ferreira, Beira-Mar and Penafi ...
(born 1988), Portuguese footballer
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Bura (water polo club)
Bura may refer to:
Nature
* Bura (wind), the Croatian name for the bora wind in the northern Mediterranean
* ''Bura'' (beetle), a genus of beetles
Places
* Bura (Achaea), a city in Greece
* Boura, Burkina Faso (disambiguation), also spelled Bu ...
, Croatian water polo club
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Bura (card game)
Bura (, ''" cutter"'') is a Russian ace–ten card game that is "particularly characteristic of Russian prisoners and ex-prisoners. Its alternative name of thirty-one refers to the combination of three trump cards that wins the game. One of the m ...
, a Russian prisoners' card game
Other
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Bura (mythology) In Greek mythology, Bura ( ; ) was a daughter of Ion, son of Xuthus, and Helice. She was the eponym of the city Boura in Achaea.
She is possibly the same as Bura, mother of Atrax by Peneus.Stephanus, s.v. Atrax'
Notes
References
* Pausa ...
, a figure in Greek mythology
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Bura Irrigation and Settlement Project (Kenya), a large irrigation project
* BURA (information technology),
Backup
In information technology, a backup, or data backup is a copy of computer data taken and stored elsewhere so that it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form, referring to the process of doing so, is "wikt:back ...
, Recovery and Archiving
* BURA (Brunel University Research Archives) at
Brunel University London
Brunel University of London (BUL) is a Public university, public Research universities, research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It is named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a Victorian era, Victorian engineer and pione ...
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