Matar may refer to:
Deity
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Matar, a Phrygian goddess who flourished in
Lydia
Lydia (; ) was an Iron Age Monarchy, kingdom situated in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire. Its capital was Sardis.
At some point before 800 BC, ...
(now Turkey) 1200 to 600 B.C., also known as
Materan, Matar Kubileya, or Kubeleya,
Cybele
Cybele ( ; Phrygian: ''Matar Kubileya, Kubeleya'' "Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Lydian: ''Kuvava''; ''Kybélē'', ''Kybēbē'', ''Kybelis'') is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest ...
, as well as
Great Goddess
Great Goddess is the concept of an almighty goddess or mother goddess, or a matriarchal religion. Apart from various specific figures called this from various cultures, the Great Goddess hypothesis, is a postulated fertility goddess supposed ...
, The Mother, Mother of the Gods, The Great Mother, Magna Mater, and other related titles in many ancient cultures adopting the deity
People
Given name
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Matar Coly (born 1984), Senegalese footballer
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Matar Fall
Matar Fall (born March 18, 1982), also known as Martin Fall, is a French professional football player currently playing in CFA 2 for Sporting Toulon Var
Sporting Club Toulon is a association football, football club from Toulon, France, th ...
(born 1982), French-born Senegalese football
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Matar Sène
Matar Sène (born September 16, 1970 in Dakar) is a retired amateur Senegalese freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's light heavyweight category. He picked up a silver medal in the 74-kg division at the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nig ...
(born 1970), retired Senegalese freestyle wrestler
Surname
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Agapius II Matar
Agapius II Matar, (sometime also known as ''Agapios III'', 1736–1812) was Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1796 to 1812.
Life
Agapius Matar was born in 1736 in Damascus. He entered young in the Basilian Salvatorian Order ...
(1736–1812), Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1796 to 1812
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Ahmad Abu Matar (born 1944), Palestinian academic and writer
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Ahmed Matar (born 1954), Iraqi poet
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Amira Hilmi Matar (born 1930), Egyptian scholar and writer
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Athanasius V Matar, Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1813
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Ghiath Matar (1986–2011), Syrian activist
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Hadi Matar (born 1997), convicted assassin, stabbing of Salman Rushdie
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Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar (; born 1970) is an American-born British-Libyan novelist, essayist, and memoirist. His debut novel '' In the Country of Men'' was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and his memoir of the search for his father, '' The Retur ...
(born 1970), American and Libyan author
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Ismail Matar
Ismail Matar Ibrahim Khamis Al Mukhaini Al Junaibi (; born 7 April 1983 in Abu Dhabi) is an Emirati former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward.
Matar was awarded the Golden Ball at the 2003 World Youth Championships a ...
(born 1983), footballer from the United Arab Emirates
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Maryam Matar
Maryam Mohamed Fatma Matar (, born 1975) is an Emirati geneticist, medical researcher, and radio host, based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Matar is the first woman to serve as director-general in the government of Dubai and is the founder an ...
(born 1975),
Emirati geneticist and medical researcher
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Matar Matar (born 1976), Bahraini politician of the Al Wefaq party
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Muhammad Afifi Matar
Muhammad Afifi Matar (; 1935 – 28 June 2010), was an Egyptian poet. He was born in the village of Ramalat al-Anjab in the Menoufia region of the Nile Delta. He went to school in Menouf and afterwards moved to Cairo where he studied philosophy at ...
(1935–2010), Egyptian poet
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Nader Matar
Nader Charbel Matar (, ; born 12 May 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Ansar.
Matar began his senior career in 2008 in Portugal, playing for Sporting CP B and Oeiras. He moved to Spain in 2010, where he pl ...
(born 1992), Lebanese footballer
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Nadia Matar
Nadia Matar (Pikovitch) (; born February 16, 1966) is an Israeli right-wing activist. She has been called by some admirers 'the settlers' Joan of Arc'.Deborah Campbel''This Heated Place: Encounters in the Promised Land ,''D & M Publishers, 2009 p ...
(born 1966), Belgian-born Israeli activist
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Paul Youssef Matar
Paul Youssef Matar (born 1 February 1941 in Naameh, Lebanon) was the former Archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut. The archeparchial seat is the city of Beirut, at the Saint George Cathedral.
Life
Paul Youssef Matar was bor ...
(born 1941), current Archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut
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Salim Matar
Selim Matar is an Iraqi-Swiss writer, historian, and public intellectual who is the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Mesopotamia. Much of his body of work meditates on the nature of Iraqi nationalism; his concepts and theories, centrin ...
, Iraqi nationalist and novelist
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Selim Matar
Selim Matar is an Iraqi-Swiss writer, historian, and public intellectual who is the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Mesopotamia. Much of his body of work meditates on the nature of Iraqi nationalism; his concepts and theories, centrin ...
(born 1956), Swiss writer, novelist and sociologist of Iraqi descent
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Yasser Matar
Yasser Matar (Arabic:ياسر مطر) (born 20 September 1985) is a retired Emirati footballer who played as midfielder
In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position ...
(born 1985), Emirati footballer
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Ahmed Matar (born 1996), Palestinian Parkour athlete
Other uses
* Matar, another name for the star
Eta Pegasi
Eta Pegasi or η Pegasi, formally named Matar , is a binary star in the constellation of Pegasus. The apparent visual magnitude of this star is +2.95, making it the fifth-brightest member of Pegasus. Based upon parallax measurements, th ...
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USS ''Matar'', Crater-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II
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Matar, Kheda, a village in Gujarat, India
See also
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Mattar, a surname
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