Asar
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Asar may refer to:
- A 19th century transcription of the name OsirisOsirisOsiris is an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He is classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and...
, an Ancient Egyptian deity of the underworld and resurrection - Asar, a horse-god revered in ancient PalmyraPalmyraPalmyra was an ancient city in Syria. In the age of antiquity, it was an important city of central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 180 km southwest of the Euphrates at Deir ez-Zor. It had long been a vital caravan city for travellers crossing the Syrian desert...
, possibly of Arabian origin - Asar, Aligudarz, a village in Aligudarz CountyAligudarz CountyAligudarz County is a county in Lorestan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Aligudarz. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 134,802, in 28,668 families. The county is subdivided into three districts: the Central District, Zaz va Mahru District, and Besharat District. The...
, Lorestan Province, Iran - Asar Party, a former Kazakhstani political party
- ASAR (Advanced Synthetic Aperture RadarSynthetic aperture radarSynthetic-aperture radar is a form of radar whose defining characteristic is its use of relative motion between an antenna and its target region to provide distinctive long-term coherent-signal variations that are exploited to obtain finer spatial resolution than is possible with conventional...
) instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite.