Kara
Encyclopedia
Given name
- Cara (given name)Cara (given name)Cara is a female given name of Latin and Irish origin. It is of 20th century origin and means friend in Irish. Cara also means beloved in Latin.Kara, the alternative spelling, is from the Cornish word, meaning love....
, an alternative spelling for Kara - Kara Kennedy AllenKara Kennedy AllenKara Kennedy Allen was a member of the American political dynasty, the Kennedy family. She was the oldest of the three children of U.S. Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy from Massachusetts, and the niece of President John Kennedy and Senator Bobby Kennedy...
, professional board member and a television producer - Kara Mahmud BushatiKara Mahmud BushatiKara Mahmud Bushati was a noble of the Bushati family in Ottoman controlled Albania near the city of Shkodër. In the 1780s his rebellious character brought him into conflict with the Ottomans. This conflict is regarded in Albanian historiography as a bid to create an independent principality...
, a noble of the Bushati family - Kara EdwardsKara EdwardsKara Edwards is an American Radio Personality and voice actress who works for Funimation Entertainment. She has provided voices for a number of English language versions of Japanese anime films. She is best known for voicing Goten and Videl in Dragon Ball series...
, an American voice actress - Kara DioGuardiKara DioGuardiKara Elizabeth DioGuardi is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, composer and TV personality. She writes music primarily in the light pop-rock, dance, and R&B genres. DioGuardi has worked with many popular artists; her songs have appeared on more than 159...
, American singer-songwriter - Kara Karaev, Azerbaijani composer
- Kara Mbodj, a Senegalese footballer
- Kara Yülük Osman, Turkish ruler
- Kara Mustafa Pasha, an Ottoman military leader
- Deborah Kara UngerDeborah Kara UngerDeborah Kara Unger is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in the films Crash , The Game , The Hurricane , White Noise , Silent Hill and 88 Minutes...
, Canadian actress - Kara TointonKara TointonKara Louise Tointon is a British actress, best known for playing Dawn Swann in BBC soap opera EastEnders. Tointon was the 2010 winner of BBC television series Strictly Come Dancing.-Early life:...
(born 1983), an English actress - Kara WalkerKara WalkerKara Walker is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes, such as The Means to an End--A Shadow Drama in Five Acts.-Biography:Walker was born in...
, contemporary African-American artist - Kara LordKara LordKara Lord is a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Guyana Universe 2011 and represented her country in Miss Universe 2011.-Pageants:...
, Miss Guyana Universe 2011
Surname
- Ayoob KaraAyoob KaraAyoob Kara is a Druze Israeli politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud and Deputy Minister for Development of the Negev and Galilee. He lives in Isfiya, Haifa District....
, Druze Israeli politician - Rasim KaraRasim KaraRasim Kara , is a former Turkey international football goalkeeper and manager. He is one of the sportsmen who served Turkish side Beşiktaş both as a player and coach.-Football career:...
, former Turkish goalkeeper - El Kara, from Italian origin
Places
- Kara Ahmet Pasha MosqueKara Ahmet Pasha MosqueThe Kara Ahmet Pasha Mosque is an Ottoman mosque along the city walls in Istanbul, Turkey.Kara Ahmet Pasha Mosque, also known as Gazi Ahmet Paşa Camii is one of Mimar Sinan's lesser-known achievements...
, Ottoman mosque along the city walls in Istanbul, Turkey - Gaya confederacyGaya confederacyGaya was a confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period.The traditional period used by historians for Gaya chronology is 42–532 CE...
, also called Kara by the inhabitants of Japan at the time - Kara StraitKara StraitThe Kara Strait or Kara Gates is a 56 km wide channel of water between the southern end of Novaya Zemlya and the northern tip of Vaygach Island...
, a river in Russia - Kara, Bougainville, a town on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea
- Kara craterKara craterKara is a meteor crater in the Yugorsky Peninsula, Nenetsia, Russia.It is 65 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 70.3 ± 2.2 million years old . Impactite outcrops located on the Baydarata Gulf shore north-east of the crater imply that the original size of the crater, now greatly...
, a meteorite crater in northern Russia - Kara (Kaushambi)Kara (Kaushambi)Kara is an old township situated near Sirathu, on the banks of Ganges, west of the city of Allahabad in Kaushambi district in Uttar Pradesh state in India...
, a town in Kaushambi bwaenear Allahabad - Kara SeaKara SeaThe Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya....
, a sea in the Arctic Ocean - Kara RegionKara RegionKara is one of Togo's five regions. Kara is the regional capital.Other major cities in the Kara region include Bafilo, Bassar, and Niamtougou.Kara is divided into the prefectures of Assoli, Bassar, Bimah, Dankpen, Doufelgou, Kéran, and Kozah....
, Togo region- Kara, Togo, a city in northern Togo
- Kára, HungaryKára, Hungary- External links :*...
, a village in Hungary - Kara, Uttar Pradesh
- Kara-ManikpurKara-ManikpurKara-Manikpur was a subah in medieval India. It was constituted of two strongholds of Kara and Manikpur, on the opposite side of the river Ganges.In 1193 Qutb-ud-din Aibak created the subah of Kara-Manikpur with its headquarters at Kara...
, a subah in medieval India.
Religion and mythology
- KáraKáraIn Norse mythology, Kára is a valkyrie. Kára is attested in the prose epilogue of the Poetic Edda poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. The epilogue details that "there was a belief in the pagan religion, which we now reckon an old wives' tale, that people could be reincarnated," and that the deceased...
, a valkyrie in Norse mythology - Kara (Sikhism)Kara (Sikhism)A kara , is a steel or iron bracelet, worn by both male and female initiated Sikhs. It is one of the five kakars or 5Ks — external articles of faith — that identify a Sikh as dedicated to their religious order. The kara was instituted by the tenth Sikh guru Gobind Singh at the Baisakhi...
, a type of bracelet worn by followers of the Sikh faith
Fictional characters
- Kara Ben NemsiKara Ben NemsiKara Ben Nemsi is a fictional character in the works of Karl May, best-selling 19th century German writer...
, Alter ego of Karl May - Kara ThraceKara ThraceKara Thrace is a fictional character in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica franchise. Played by Katee Sackhoff, she is a revised version of Lieutenant Starbuck from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series...
- Kara Zor-El, Alter ego of Supergirl
Music
- Kara (band)Kara (band)Kara is a popular South Korean girl group signed with DSP Media . The band name Kara comes from the Greek Word "chara" Kara (Hangul: 카라, Japanese: カラ, often stylized as KARA) is a popular South Korean girl group signed with DSP Media (DSP). The band name Kara comes from the Greek Word "chara" Kara...
, Korean girl group - Kara (rock band), Japanese indie-rock group (Tamaki Nanase, Katsuhiko Masuhara, Ryosuke Nagano, Kiyomi Watanabe)
- Kara, self-titled album and artist pseudonym for Kara Williamson-Tualatai
- Kara Pain, DJ for Liquid Metal (Sirius XM)Liquid Metal (Sirius XM)Liquid Metal is a channel on Sirius XM Radio. The channel was originally launched as Hard Attack, and was only located on Sirius 27, moving to Sirius 40 on May 4, 2011. The channel plays a variety of hard metal from yesterday and today...
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Other uses
- The ICAO airport identifier for Acadiana Regional AirportAcadiana Regional AirportAcadiana Regional Airport is a public use airport in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is owned by Iberia Parish and is located four nautical miles northwest of the central business district of New Iberia, Louisiana...
- Kara class cruiserKara class cruiserThe Kara is a class of Cold War era Soviet guided missile cruisers. The Soviet designation is Project 1134B Berkut B - Беркут Б and the Soviet mission description is "large anti-submarine warfare ship" and not "cruiser".-Design:...
, a Soviet Cold War warship design - Kara Film FestivalKara Film FestivalThe KaraFilm Festival - Karachi International Film Festival is an internationally recognized film festival of Pakistan annually held in Karachi....
or Karachi International Film Festival, held at KarachiKarachiKarachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...
, Pakistan - KARA (FM), a radio station (99.1 FM) licensed to Williams, California, United States
- Kara (ethnic group)Kara (ethnic group)The Kara are an ethnic and linguistic group mainly based in the Ukerewe District, in the Tanzanian section of Lake Victoria . In 1987 the Kara population was estimated to number 86,000 ....
, ethnic group in Tanzania - Kara, a type of a steel bracelet
- KARA, Korea Automobile Racing Association
- KARA, Korea Animal Rights Advocates
- Nader KaraNader KaraNader Mohammed Kara is a Libyan football attacker who, as of 2006/2007 season is playing for Al Ahly Tripoli. Having received offers to play abroad, by the Bahraini and Turkish national leagues, he decided instead to remain in Libya, instead moving to Al- Ahly Tripoli from Al Olympic Zaouia.He...
See also
- Cara (disambiguation)
- Khara (disambiguation)
- Karasu (disambiguation)Karasu (disambiguation)-Rivers:in Central Asia* A small river in northeast Iran feeding into the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea* Karasu River , A right tributary of the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.in Turkey...
- Kara language (disambiguation)