Maia

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Maia may refer to:

Places:

• Maia, Ialomiţa, located in Ialomiţa County, Romania
• Maia, New Zealand is a suburb of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand
• Maia, Portugal is a city in Oporto metropolitan area in Portugal
• Maia (Ribeira Grande) is a parish in Ribeira Grande in the Azores (an autonomous region of Portugal)
• Maia, Russia
• Maia, Switzerland, a part of Intragna in the Canton of Tessin
• The Maia Institute in Monaco is a private research institute specialized in Multi-agent systems

People:

• Maia Chiburdanidze is a former women's world chess champion.
• Salgueiro Maia was a Portuguese captain during the Carnation Revolution
• Maía is a Colombian singer.

Biology and Sciences:

• Maja is a genus of spider crabs from the family Majidae
• Maia (star) in astronomy, (20 Tauri) is the third brightest of the seven bright stars in the Pleiades open star cluster.

Software:

• Maia Mailguard is an Open Source management system for amavisd-new and SpamAssassin.

Mythology:

• Maia (mythology), in Greek mythology, is the eldest of the Pleiades , the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione.

Literature and Fiction:

• Maia (Middle-earth) or Maiar in J. R. R. Tolkien's mythos is one from the lesser kind of Ainur, angelic beings who pre-date the creation of Eä.
• Maia (novel) is a fantasy novel by Richard Adams.
• Maia Acheron is a character in Jak and Daxter
• Maia is a fictional novel supposedly written by the main character in Death in Venice.
• Maia - the name given to Thumbelina when she was married to the King of the Spirit of the Flowers in Hans Christian Andersens original story of Thumbelina.
• Maia Skouris, previously Maia Rutledge, a character on The 4400.

[edit] See also

• Maya