Tara

Tara may refer to:

Contents 1 Religions and deities 2 People 2.1 Titles 3 Places 3.1 Buildings 3.2 Natural features 3.2.1 Rivers 3.3 Settlements 3.4 Other 4 Companies and organizations 5 Works of fiction 5.1 Novels 5.2 Film and television 5.3 Settings 5.4 Other 6 Science 7 Music 8 Other 9 See also

Religions and deities

• Tara (Buddhism), is a tantric meditation deity in Tibetan Buddhism, actually the generic name for a set of similar bodhisattvas

• In Hinduism:

• Tara (Devi), a Mahavidya of Mahadevi, Kali or Parvati
• In Indian Hinduism, the star goddess Tara is a manifestation of the queen of time, Kali
• Another name for Taraka, the second wife of Brihaspati
• Tara (Ramayana), the wife of the monkey king Vali, who married Vali's brother and successor, Sugriva, after Vali's death

• Tara, the mother goddess in the Druidic religion
• Tara, a sea goddess in Polynesian mythology

People

• Tara (name), a list of people with the name

This section lists people commonly referred to solely by this name.

• Tara (actress) (born 1944), from the Assamese film industry
• Tara (Kannada actress) (born 1967)
• Tara (wrestler), Lisa Marie Varon, an American professional wrestler

Titles

• Baron Tara, Irish title
• Viscount Tara, Irish title
• Kingship of Tara, a title of authority in ancient Ireland
• Baron Brabazon of Tara, UK title

Places

Buildings

• Tara, Cairo, villa in Gezira Island, Cairo made famous by its inhabitants during World War II
• Tara Theatre, an art house movie theater in Atlanta named after the plantation in Gone With the Wind

Natural features

• Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, Ireland, ritual site of ancient High Kings of Ireland
• Salar de Tara, salt pan in Chile
• Tara, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland
• Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland
• Tara Mountain and Tara National Park in Serbia
• Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
• 5863 Tara, an asteroid

Rivers

• • Tara (Drina), in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Tara (Greece), in Arcadia, Greece
  • Tara River (Russia), in Siberia, Russia
  • Tara (Italy), a small river near Taranto

Settlements

• Tara, Afghanistan, in Wardak Province
• Tara, Nepal
• Tara, Queensland, town in Australia
• Tara, Ontario, village in Canada
• Tara, Ethiopia, a village in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
• Tara, Russia, town in Omsk Oblast, Russia
• Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
• Tara Township, Minnesota (disambiguation), USA; several places
• Tara Hills, California, USA
• Tara, Zambia, a village in Zambia
• Tara, Ireland, a village in Ireland

Other

• Shire of Tara, Queensland, Australia
• Tara County, New South Wales, Australia
• Tara Station in Saga Prefecture, Japan
• Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland
• Tara Boulevard, modern name of U.S. Route 19 and U.S. Route 41 through Jonesboro, where the Tara Plantation was said to be located.
• Tara, home of Keith Moon
• Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
• Tara High School (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Baton Rouge, LA, USA
• Tara Field, airport in Clayton County, Georgia, USA

Companies and organizations

• Tara expedition, Arctic voyage 2006-08
• Tara Foundation, charity for transgendered people
• Tara (Israel), dairy co-operative
• Tara Labs, manufacturer of high-end audio products
• Tara Newz, Bengali news channel
• Tara (Northern Ireland), loyalist group
• Tara Arts, cross-cultural theatre production group in London, U.K.

Works of fiction

Novels

• Tara Road, a 1998 novel by Irish writer Maeve Binchy
  • Tara Road (film), a 2005 film based on the novel

Film and television

• Tara (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
• Tara (2001 film), an American film, also known as Hood Rat, directed by Leslie Small, starring Isaiah Washington and Ice T
• TARA, acronym for The Amazing Race Asia, a reality game show on the AXN network
• United States of Tara, a 2009 US comedy-drama TV series
• Tara Sasankam, a popular Indian play and 1941 and 1969 films

Settings

• Tara, a planet setting of the Doctor Who serial The Androids of Tara
• Tara Plantation, fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
• Tara (Artemis Fowl), a location in the Artemis Fowl series
• Tara, the home of protagonist Scarlet O'Hara in the Margaret Mitchell novel "Gone With the Wind"

Other

• Queen Tara, play by Darrell Figgis. Opened at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, February 25, 1913. Produced by Henry Herbert.

Science

• Tara (genus), a genus of jumping spiders
• Tara tree in Peru
• Tara (shrub), a Malagasy name for Lemuropisum edule
• TARA, the acronym for the Timed Antagonistic Response Alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique
• Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T
• a Vitis rotundifolia grape variety

Music

• T-ara, a 7-member South Korean girl music group
• Tara (Absu album), fourth album by black metal band Absu
• Tara (Yano album)
• "Tara" (song), a song on Moya Brennan's 2003 album Two Horizons

Other

• Tara Brooch, an artifact from Ireland
• tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
• Hurricane Tara (disambiguation), name of three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
• Battle of Tara (Ireland), in Ireland in 980

See also

• Taras (disambiguation)

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