Turin (disambiguation)

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Turin is the capital city of Piedmont Region, in north-west Italy. Turin may also refer to the following:

Places

Canada

El Salvador

  • Turín, a town in the Ahuachapán Department

Italy

  • Province of Turin, a province in the Piedmont region of Italy, whose capital is Turin

United States

People

  • Luca Turin, biophysicist and proponent of the vibration theory of olfaction
  • John J. Turin, American physicist
  • Mark Turin, linguistic anthropologist
  • Characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe Middle-earth:

Other

  • Shroud of Turin, cloth that allegedly covered the dead Jesus of Nazareth
  • Turin, an alternative name for the Italian wine grape Dolcetto and the French wine grape Douce noir
  • Turin King List, list of ancient paraohs
  • Turin, or Tarin, alternative spellings for the Pashtun tribe Tareen

See also

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