Chora
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Chora can mean one of several things:

Localities
  • Chora District
    Chora District
    Chora District is a district of Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan. The district center is the town of Chora, with a population of about 3,000. It is a rural town with no industry beyond livestock, agriculture, and small merchants....

     in the Uruzgan province of Afghanistan
  • Chora (woreda)
    Chora (woreda)
    Chora is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Illubabor Zone, Chora is bordered on the south by the Jimma Zone, on the west by Yayu, on the northwest by Supena Sodo, on the north by Dega, and on the east by Bedele. The major town in Chora is Kumbabe.Coffee is an...

    , a district in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
  • The Chora Church
    Chora Church
    The Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora is considered to be one of the most beautiful examples of a Byzantine church. The church is situated in Istanbul, in the Edirnekapı neighborhood, which lies in the western part of the municipality of Fatih...

    , a Byzantine church in Istanbul
  • Chora, main town on the Greek island of Mykonos
    Mykonos
    Mykonos is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island spans an area of and rises to an elevation of at its highest point. There are 9,320 inhabitants most of whom live in the largest town, Mykonos, which lies on the west coast. The town is also...

    .


In Philosophy
  • Khora
    Khora
    Khôra is a philosophical term described by Plato in Timaeus as a receptacle, a space, or an interval. It is neither being nor nonbeing but an interval between in which the "forms" were originally held...

    , a philosophical term described by Plato meaning a space, or place in space; the milieu in which Forms materialize


In Literature
  • Chora, the proper name of Avendesora
    Avendesora
    Avendesora, or The Tree Of Life, is a recurring object in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.Avendesora is the last cutting remaining from the chora trees that lined the streets of Paaren Disen, in the Age of Legends. Chora trees are distinguished by their tri-foil leaves and the feeling of...

    , or The Tree Of Life in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series during the Age of Legends
  • Chorae, instruments which repudiate sorcery in R. Scott Bakker
    R. Scott Bakker
    Richard Scott Bakker is a Canadian fantasy author. He grew up on a tobacco farm in the Simcoe area. In 1986 he attended the University of Western Ontario to pursue a degree in Literature and later an MA in Theory and Criticism...

    's Second Apocalypse series


Other
  • Chora, a genus of nolid
    Nolidae
    Nolidae is a family of moths with about 1,400 described species worldwide. They are mostly small with dull colouration, the main distinguishing feature being tufts of raised scales on the forewings...

     moths
  • Chora (software), a web-based CVS repository viewer. Part of the Horde framework
  • Chora (Programming Language), an object oriented programming language, specialized for the development of graphical user interface applications
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