Chora

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Chora (Greek: χώρα) can mean one of several things:

Localities

  • Chora District in the Uruzgan province of Afghanistan
  • Chora (woreda), a district in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
  • The Chora Church, a Byzantine church in Istanbul
  • Chora, main town on the Greek island of Mykonos
  • Chora, Iran, village in Gilan Province

In philosophy

  • Khora, a philosophical term described by Plato meaning a space, or place in space; the milieu in which Forms materialize

In literature

  • Chora, the proper name of Avendesora, or The Tree Of Life in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series during the Age of Legends
  • Chorae, instruments which repudiate sorcery in R. Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse series

Other

  • Chora, a genus of nolid moths
  • Chora (software), a web-based CVS repository viewer. Part of the Horde framework
  • Chora (Programming Language), an object oriented programming language, specialized for the development of graphical user interface applications
  • Chora, the Greek word for “countryside"
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