Chora may refer to:
Places
Greece
''Chora'' (meaning "Town" in
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
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), is often used as the name of the main town on an island, following the common practice in Greece when the name of the island itself is the same as the name of the principal town.
* Chora, old capital of the island of
Alonnisos
Alonnisos ( el, Αλόννησος ), also transliterated as Alonissos, is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. After Skiathos and Skopelos it is the third member of the Northern Sporades. It is (2 nm) east of the island of Skopelos. Alonnisos i ...
* Chora, village on the island of
Folegandros
Folegandros (also Pholegandros; el, Φολέγανδρος) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea that, together with Sikinos, Ios, Anafi and Santorini, forms the southern part of the Cyclades. Its surface area is and it has 765 inhabi ...
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Chora, Ios, capital of the island of Ios
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Chora, Messinia, a small town in Messenia in the Peloponnese
* Chora, principal town on the island of
Mykonos
Mykonos (, ; el, Μύκονος ) is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island has an area of and rises to an elevation of at its highest point. There are 10,134 inhabitants according to t ...
* Chora, an alternative name for
Naxos city on the island of Naxos
* Chora, principal town on the island of
Patmos
Patmos ( el, Πάτμος, ) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. It is famous as the location where John of Patmos received the visions found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament, and where the book was written.
One of the northernmos ...
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Chora Sfakion
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, a town on the south coast of Crete
* Chora, the main town of the island of
Kythira
Kythira (, ; el, Κύθηρα, , also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira) is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is traditionally listed as one of the seven main Ionian Islands, ...
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Chora (software)
Horde is a free web-based groupware.
The components of this groupware rest on the Horde framework. This PHP-based framework provides all the elements required for rapid web application development.
Horde offers applications such as the Horde I ...
, a web-based CVS repository viewer
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Miura Chora
was a Japanese poet raised in Ise, in the Mie Prefecture of Shima Province on the island of Honshu, Japan. He traveled throughout the country composing poems and helped lead the Matsuo Bashō revival movement of the eighteenth century.
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(1729–1780), Japanese poet
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Chora (woreda), a district in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
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Chora, Iran, village in Gilan Province
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Chora District, in the Uruzgan province of Afghanistan
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Chora, Afghanistan, the capital of the Chora District above.
See also
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Chora Church
'' '' tr, Kariye Mosque''
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, a Byzantine church in Istanbul
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Khôra
''Khôra'' (also ''chora''; grc, χώρα) was the territory of the Ancient Greek ''polis'' outside the city proper. The term has been used in philosophy by Plato to designate a receptacle (as a "third kind" 'triton genos'' ''Timaeus'' 48e4), a ...
'', Greek term used by Plato to describe neither being nor nonbeing
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