Maidan

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Maidan (versions: maydan, midan, meydan or majdan; ميدان‎, maydān) may refer to:

Places

Squares and parks

In Egypt

• Tahrir Square or Midan Tahrir, Cairo, Egypt
• Tahrir Square, Alexandria or Mïdän at Taḥrǐr, Alexandria, Egypt

In India

• Maidan (Kolkata), a park in Kolkata, India
• Ramlila Maidan, a playground in New Delhi, India
• Oval Maidan, a playground in Mumbai, India
• Pragati Maidan, a venue for exhibitions and conventions in New Delhi
• Fateh Maidan ("Victory Square"), the original name of Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

In other countries

• Freedom Square, Tbilisi, or Tavisuplebis Moedani, the central square of Tbilisi, capital of Georgia
• Maidaan-e naqsh-e jehaan, or Naqsh-e Jahan Square, a square in the centre of Isfahan, Iran
• Maydan al Shajara, a town square in Benghazi, Libya
• Taksim Meydanı, or Taksim Square, a square situated in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey
• Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Майдан Незалежності), Independence Square, the central square of Kiev, capital of Ukraine
• Tahrir Square, Sana'a, or Maidan at-Tahrir, Sana'a, Yemen

Towns and villages

In Afghanistan

• Maidan Shar, the capital of Wardak province, Afghanistan
• Meydan, Afghanistan, village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan

In Iran

In Poland

In Serbia

• Maidan, the Romanian name for Majdanpek in Serbia
• Majdan, Novi Kneževac, a village in North Banat District, Vojvodina province, Serbia

In Syria

• Maydan Ikbis, a small town in Syria
• Al-Midan, neighbourhood and municipality in Damascus, Syria

In Turkey

• Meydan, Gölbaşı, a village in the district of Gölbaşı, Adıyaman Province, Turkey
• Meydan, Kurucaşile, a village in the district of Kurucaşile, Bartın Province, Turkey

In other countries

• Medan, Indonesia - capital city of North Sumatra province
• Maydan, Kyrgyzstan, a town in Kyrgyzstan
• Maidan, Nepal, a municipality in southern Nepal
• Maidan, Lower Dir District, valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
• Dubai Meydan City, United Arab Emirates
  • Meydan Racecourse, in the city
  • Meydan Tower, skyscraper to be built in the city

Other kinds of place

• Meydan Chayi, a river in Tabriz, Iran
• Maidan (Tirah), a valley in Khyber Agency, Pakistan

Surname

• Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Austrian contralto
• Radosław Majdan, Polish football goalkeeper
• Joanna Majdan-Gajewska, Polish chess player

Media

• Maidan Daily, an Urdu-language daily newspaper published in Peshawar, Pakistan
• Karaoke on the Maidan, a Ukrainian TV programme
• Maidan (film), a 2014 documentary film about civil protests in Ukraine

Politics

• Euromaidan, a political movement in Ukraine for association with Europe and resignation of Viktor Yanukovych as President
• Automaidan, a civic movement in Ukraine that was (car-) patrolling (also protesting / blockading) the streets of Ukrainian cities (during the Maidan revolution 2013 / 14 in Ukraine)
• Anti-Maidan, a pro-government political movement in Ukraine during the course of the Euromaidan movement

Other

• Bijapur Fort#Malik-i-Maidan, a cannon of the 16th century and artifact of the Old India