Agora (disambiguation)

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Agora is a general name for a marketplace in ancient Greece.

Agora may also refer to:

Places

• Ancient Agora of Athens
• Agora (Thrace), an ancient Greek town on the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey
• Agora Center, Jyväskylä, Finland
• Agora Theatre and Ballroom, a concert club in Cleveland, Ohio, US
• L'Àgora, a multifunctional building in Valencia, Spain

Arts and media

• Agora, a 1977 studio jazz album by Paulinho da Costa
• Agora (band), a Mexican progressive metal band
• Agora (film), a 2009 historical movie about Hypatia of Alexandria
• Agora (sculpture), an art installation by Magdalena Abakanowicz in Chicago's Grant Park
• "Agora" (song), a song by Bear Hands
• Agora Trilogy, a fantasy novel trilogy by David Whitley set on the world Agora
• Agora São Paulo or Agora, a Brazilian newspaper started in 1999
• Cirkus Agora, a Norwegian travelling circus

Software

• Agora (programming language)
• Agora (web browser), a proof of concept World Wide Web email browser developed in 1994-1997
• Bing Product Upload, a discontinued part of Microsoft's Bing search engine (codename AGORA)

Sciences

• AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) Program, started by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to provide access to scientific information to developing countries
• Asteroidal Gravity Optical and Radar Analysis (AGORA), a proposed space probe to investigate the asteroid Vesta in the 1990s
• Alliance for Global Open Risk Analysis (AGORA), an international forum for the development and sharing of free/open-source software for multi-hazard risk modeling

Organizations

• Agora (online marketplace), an online black market
• Agora (organization), a Russian human rights advocacy group
• Agora SA, a Polish media corporation
• The Agora, a network of companies in the publishing, information services, and real estate industries
• Agora Financial, a subsidiary of The Agora network that publishes books, magazines, newsletters and financial web sites
• Agora University, Oradea, Romania

Other uses

• Name of the building of the Swiss Cancer Centre, Lausanne
• Israeli agora, a unit of currency

See also

• Agorism, a libertarian political philosophy
• Agoura, California, an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County