Tara

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Tara may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Tara (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
• Tara (2001 film), an American film, also known as Hood Rat, directed by Leslie Small
• Tara (2010 film), a Bengali film directed by Bratyo Basu
• Tara (2013 film), an Indian film directed by Kumar Raj
• Tara (TV series), soap opera that aired on Zee TV
• TARA, acronym for The Amazing Race Asia, a reality game show on the AXN network
  • Acronym for The Amazing Race Australia, a reality game show on Network Ten

Music

• T-ara, a South Korean girl music group
• Tara Music, a label featuring traditional Irish music
• Tara (Absu album)
• "Tara" (song), a song on Moya Brennan's 2003 album Two Horizons
• Tara (Yano album)
• "Tara", a song by Roxy Music on the 1982 album Avalon (Roxy Music album)

Fictional settings

• Tara (plantation), fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
• Tara, a planet, setting of the Doctor Who serial The Androids of Tara
• Tara, a fictional town, the setting for the 1970 film The Spider's Stratagem

Biology

• Tara (plant), a genus of legumes
• Tara (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
• Tara tree (Caesalpitarania spinosa), native to Peru
• Tara, a Malagasy name for the shrub Lemuropisum edule
• Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T
• A Vitis rotundifolia grape variety
• Tara, Māori for the White-fronted tern (Sterna striata)
• Tara, a Chinese name for Calamus erectus

Companies and media

• Țara, a newspaper from the Republic of Moldova
• Tara Air, a Nepalese airline
• Tara International, Indian marketer for Tara Green Auto
• Tara Labs, a manufacturer of high-end audio products
• Tara Muzik, a defunct Indian Bengali music channel
• Tara Newz, a defunct Indian Bengali news channel
• Tara Television (or Tara TV), an Irish cable and satellite channel

People

• Şarık Tara (1930–2018), Turkish billionaire and former captain of industry
• Tara (Assamese actress), former Indian film actress
• Tara (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
• Tara (Kannada actress), stage name of Indian actress and politician Anuradha
• Tara (wrestler), ring name of professional wrestler Lisa Marie Varon
• Tara the Southern Belle, a member of the Southern Belles tag-team from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

Places

Natural features

• Tara (Drina), a river in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, a tributary of the Drina
• Tara (Irtysh), a river in Russia (in Novosibirsk and Omsk Oblasts), a tributary of the Irtysh
• Tara, an older name for the river Tragus, in Greece (in Arcadia)
• Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Japan (in Saga Prefecture)
• Tara Mountain, Serbia
• Tara National Park, Serbia
• Tara Island, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines
• Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland, a hill and a village
• Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, a ritual site of ancient high kings of Ireland
• Salar de Tara, a salt pan in Chile
• 5863 Tara, an asteroid

Populated places

Africa

• "Tara", Cairo, a squatted villa on Gezira Island, Cairo, Egypt, made notorious by its SOE occupants during World War II
• Tara, Zambia, a village in the Southern Province of Zambia
• Tara Subcounty, a region in Maracha District, Uganda

Asia

• Tara, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province
• Tara, Nepal, a village in Baglung District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of central Nepal
• Tara, Russia, several inhabited localities
• Tara, Saga, a town, mountain, and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan

Australia

• Tara, Northern Territory, a locality in the Barkly Region
• Tara, Queensland, a town
• Tara County, New South Wales
• Shire of Tara, Queensland

Europe

• Hill of Tara, an ancient site in County Meath, Republic of Ireland
• Tara, County Down, a townland in the civil parish of Witter, County Down, Northern Ireland
• Tara, County Offaly, a townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Republic of Ireland

North America

• Tara, Florida, United States, an unincorporated area
• Tara, Ontario, village in Canada
• Tara Township, Minnesota (disambiguation), several places in the United States

Religion

• In Hinduism:
  • Tara (Mahavidya), a Tantric goddess
  • Tara (Ramayana), the wife of the monkey king Vali
  • Tara (Hindu goddess), the wife of Brihaspati
• Tara (Buddhism), a tantric meditation deity in Tibetan Buddhism
• Tara, a sea goddess in Polynesian mythology
• Tara (Greek mythology), a name of one of the Hesperides attested on a vase

Schools

• Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
• Tara High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
• Tara Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center in Melbourne, Australia

Titles

• Baron Brabazon of Tara, a UK title
• Baron Tara, an Irish title
• Kingship of Tara, a title in ancient Ireland
• Viscount Tara, an Irish title

Transportation

• Tara Air, a Nepalese airline
• Tara, an oceanic research vessel used for the Tara expedition
• Tara Field, an airport in Georgia, United States
• Tara Station, a railway station in Saga Prefecture, Japan
• Tara Street, a major traffic route in Dublin, Ireland
• Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland
• IKCO Tara, a car

Other uses

• Đurđevića Tara Bridge, a bridge over the Tara River in northern Montenegro
• Tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
• Tara (cat), a family cat who saved a four-year-old boy from a dog attack
• Tara (Northern Ireland), a loyalist group
• Tara, Chertsey, a house in Surrey, UK, previously the home of drummer Keith Moon
• Tara Brooch, an artifact from Ireland
• Tara Foundation, a charity for transgender people
• Tara Hurdle, a horse race in Ireland
• Tara Mine, a zinc and lead mine near Navan, County Meath, Ireland
• Tara Theatre, an art house movie theater in Atlanta named after the plantation in Gone With the Wind
• Timed antagonistic response alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique
• Tāra, Māori language name for New Zealand dollar
• Yugoslav submarine Nebojša, or Tara, a submarine of the Yugoslav Navy

See also

• Battle of Tara (disambiguation), a number of battles
• Golden Tara, a Majapahit period (Indonesia) gold image of a Hindu goddess
• Hurricane Tara (disambiguation), three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
• All pages with titles containing Tara
• Taras (disambiguation)
• Taara or Tharapita, a god in Estonian mythology
• Terah, a biblical figure
• Tera (disambiguation)
• Terra (disambiguation)

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