Kurban is a term for

animal sacrifice Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of animals, usually as part of a religious ritual or to appease or maintain favour with a deity. Animal sacrifices were common throughout Europe and the Ancient Near East until the spread of Chris ...

in: *Islam, see

qurban ''Qurbān'' () or ''uḍḥiyah'' () as referred to in Islamic law, is a ritual animal sacrifice of a livestock animal during Eid al-Adha. The concept and definition of the word is derived from the Qur'an, the sacred scripture of Muslims, and i ...

i *Judaism, see

korban In Judaism, the (), also spelled or , is any of a variety of sacrificial offerings described and commanded in the Torah. The plural form is , , or . The term primarily refers to sacrificial offerings given from humans to God for the pur ...

*the Balkans, see

kourbania ''Kourbania'' (, pl. from and ultimately from , sacrificial rite analogous to Jewish qorban) is a Christianized animal sacrifice in parts of Greece. It usually involves the slaughter of lambs as "kourbania" offerings to saints. In antiquity ...

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Kurban Günebakan Kurban Günebakan (born September 13, 1978 in Kars), nicknamed ''Kaplan'' (), is a Turkish amateur boxer best known to win the bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships held in Plovdiv, Bulga ...

(born 1978), Turkish boxer *

Kurban Kurbanov Kurban Kurbanov (; born 21 March 1985 in Makhachkala, Dagestan) is an Uzbek freestyle wrestler from Russia. He competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the 96 kg category and finished in seventh and fifth place, respectively. He was ...

(born 1985), freestyle wrestler from Uzbekistan *

Kurban Said Kurban Said (/, ) is the pseudonym of the author of ''Ali and Nino'', a novel originally published in 1937 in the German language by the Austrian publisher E.P. Tal. The novel has since been published in more than 30 languages. The true identit ...

, pseudonym of the author Azerbaijani–UkrainianLev Nussimbaum (1905–1942) *

Kurban Tulum Kurban Tulum (; zh, s=库尔班·吐鲁木; 1883 – 26 May 1975), also known as Uncle Kurban (), was a Uyghurs, Uyghur farmer and electrician who lived in the oasis town of Keriya Town, Keriya, in Xinjiang, China. The government of the Peopl ...

(1883-1975), Uyghur treated by the Chinese Communist Party as a symbol of unity with the Uyghurs * Naheed Kurban Nenshi (born 1972), Canadian politician

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* Olga Kurban (born 1987), Russian female heptathlete * Roy Kurban, American Taekwondo martial arts grandmaster

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Kurban (band) Kurban were a Turkish heavy metal band formed in 1995. The band's members were Kerem Tüzün, Burak Gürpınar, Deniz Yılmaz and Özgür Kankaynar. The band opened for Metallica in 1999 at the Ali Sami Yen Stadium, and opened for Megadeth i ...

, a Turkish rock band

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