Shire (disambiguation)

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A shire is an administrative district in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Shire may also refer to:

Places

• Shire River, a river in Malawi and Mozambique
• Shire Highlands, a plateau in southern Malawi lying east of the Shire River
• Shire, Ethiopia, a town in Ethiopia also known as Inda Selassie
• The Shire, an informal name for various counties of the United Kingdom
• Shire Brook, in South Yorkshire, England
• Shire Country Park, a park south of Birmingham, England
• a colloquial term for the American state of New Hampshire
• Sutherland Shire colloquially referred to as The Shire, a suburban region of southern Sydney, Australia

People

• Abdisamad Ali Shire, Vice President of Puntland
• Barre Adan Shire Hiiraale, Somali Minister of Defense and leader of the Juba Valley Alliance
• David Shire (born 1937), American songwriter and composer
• Mohamoud Ali Shire (1897–1960), 26th Sultan of the Warsangali Sultanate (Somalia)
• Talia Shire (born 1946), American actress
• Shire Jama Ahmed, Somali linguist credited with devising a Latin script for transcribing the Somali language

In business

• Shire Books, a United Kingdom publisher of books on history, heritage and antiques
• Shire plc, a British speciality pharmaceuticals company
• Shire Foods, a manufacturer of pies, pasties, and sausage rolls based in Warwickshire, England

In fiction

• The Shire (Middle-earth), a region in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
• The Shire (TV series), a reality television series about the Sutherland Shire, set in the suburban region of southern Sydney, Australia.
• Randall Shire, a Marvel Comics character

Other uses

• Apostolic Vicariate of Shire, a Roman Catholic territorial jurisdiction in what was then Nyasaland Protectorate, Africa
• East Stirlingshire F.C., Scottish football club nicknamed "The Shire"
• Shire horse, a large breed of draft horse
• Battle of Shire, fought in 1936 as part of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War
• Shire Hall, Monmouth, Wales, a building
• Shire Hall, Newport, Wales, a building

See also

• Shires (disambiguation)

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