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Mata, Iran Mata (, also Romanized as Maţā‘ and Matā; also known as Mogh Matā) is a village in Esmaili Rural District, Esmaili District, Anbarabad County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 79, across 16 families. References ...

, a village in Kerman Province, Iran *

Mata, Israel Mata () is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Jerusalem corridor about eight kilometers southeast of Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology "The name ''mata' ...

, a Moshav in the Judaean Mountains, south-west of Jerusalem, not far from Beit Shemesh *

Mata, Rio Grande do Sul Mata is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Paleontology The city of Mata has large deposits of petrified trees. Museum of the city that have fossils: #Museum Daniel Cargnin. # Palaeobotanical Garden in Mata File:Museu Padre C ...

, town in Brazil * Mata Island, in the Hudson Bay of Nunavut, Canada * Mata River, of the East Coast of North Island, New Zealand * Mata,

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

* Mata, in

Castelo Branco, Portugal Castelo Branco (), officially the City of Castelo Branco (), is an inland city and municipality in Central Portugal. It has 34,455 inhabitants in its urban area (2021) and is the seat of the district of the same name. The municipality, with 52,27 ...

* Mata, Dianbai County (马踏镇), town in Guangdong, China

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* Mata (surname), for people with the surname Mata *

Mata Amritanandamayi Sri Mātā Amritānandamayī Devi (born Sudhamani Idamannel; 27 September 1953), often known as Amma ("Mother"), is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, guru and humanitarian, who is revered as 'the hugging Hindu saint, saint' by her followers ...

(born 1953), Hindu spiritual leader and guru *

Mata Hari Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (, ; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari ( , ; , ), was a Dutch Stripper, exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for German Empire, Germany during World War ...

(1876–1917), stage name of exotic dancer, courtesan and spy Margaretha Zelle *

Mata Sundari Mātā Sundarī (died 1747, ) was a wife of Guru Gobind Singh. Biography She was the daughter of Ram Sarana, a Punjabi Soni Kumarāv Khatri of Bijwara Soni - in present-day Hoshiārpur district. In 1704, when the family of Guru Gobind Singh wa ...

Mata Jito Mātā Jīto (1670 – 5 December 1700, Gurmukhi: ਮਾਤਾ ਜੀਤੋ, Shahmukhi: ), or Ajeet Kaur, was a wife of Guru Gobind Singh. Biography She was the first wife of the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. The couple married on 21 ...

, and

Mata Sahib Kaur Mata Sahib Devan (1 November 1681 – 1747, ), also known as Mata Sahib Kaur and Mata Sahib Devi, was a wife of Guru Gobind Singh. Early life She was the daughter of Har Bhagwan Devan (alias ''Ramu''), a Bassi Khatri of Rohtas, Jhelum Distri ...

, the wives of Sikh guru Gobind Singh; according to one theory, the first two are the same person *

Mata Tripta Mata Tripta (1446–1522; Punjabi: ਮਾਤਾ ਤ੍ਰਿਪਤਾ; ''mātā tripatā'') was the mother of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism. Biography Early life Tripta was born in 1446 to a father named Bhai Raam, a Jhangar Khatri ...

, mother of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism *

Mata (rapper) Michał Matczak (born 14 July 2000 in Wrocław), known professionally as Mata, Młody Matczak or Skute Bobo (Stoned Baby), is a Polish rapper, singer and songwriter. Life He is the son of Marcin Matczak, a law professor and Arletta Śliwińska ...

(born 2000), Polish rapper

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* ''Mata'' (2006 film), a Kannada language film * ''Mata'' (1942 film), a Bollywood film *

MATA Festival The MATA Festival is a New York City, New York–based annual contemporary classical music festival devoted to championing the works of young composers. It was founded in 1996 by Philip Glass, Lisa Bielawa and Eleonor Sandresky and is currently u ...

, short for Music at the Anthology, Inc., a festival of contemporary classical music based in New York * ''Mata'' (album), a 2022 album by M.I.A.

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* ''Ma Ta'',

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India **Marathi people (Uttar Pradesh), the Marathi people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Mar ...

newspaper based in Mumbai, India. * Mata, may refer to

Mataji {{italic title ''Mataji'' (Hindi माताजी ''mātājī'') is a Hindi term meaning 'mother of all'. Etymology "Mātā" (माता) is the Hindi word for "mother", from Sanskrit ''mātṛ'' (मातृ), and the "-jī" (जी) suffi ...

** Hindi term for mother - for example

Skandamata ''Skandamātā'' () is the fifth among the Navadurga forms of Mahadevi. Her name comes from ''Skanda'', an alternate name for the war god Kartikeya, and ''Mātā'', meaning mother. As one of the Navadurga, the worship of Skandamātā takes pla ...

, the mother of war god Skanda **

Devi ''Devī'' (; ) is the Sanskrit word for 'goddess'; the masculine form is Deva (Hinduism), ''deva''. ''Devi'' and ''deva'' mean 'heavenly, divine, anything of excellence', and are also gender-specific terms for a deity in Hinduism. The concept ...

in Hindu religion * ''Mata'' (cicada), a genus of cicadas *

Matha A ''matha'' (; , ), also written as ''math'', ''muth'', ''mutth'', ''mutt'', or ''mut'', is a Sanskrit word that means 'institute or college', and it also refers to a monastery in Hinduism.

, is a Hindu religious institution

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