Mago
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- Mago (genus), a genus of jumping spiders
- Mago (goddess), or "Ma Gu" (Chinese: 麻姑), the Xian (Taoism)Xian (Taoism)Xian is a Chinese word for an enlightened person, translatable in English as:*"spiritually immortal; transcendent; super-human; celestial being"...
or a goddess in East Asia - Mago (goddess) (마고: 麻姑), in Korean mythologyKorean mythologyKorean mythology consists of national legends and folk-tales which come from all over the Korean Peninsula. Even within the same ethnic group, myths tend to have slightly different variations...
Places:
- Mago IslandMago IslandMago Island is a volcanic island that lies in the northwest sector of Fiji's northern Lau Group of islands. One of the largest private islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the pristine island consists of of land....
, an island in Fiji - Mago, Minorca, a Carthaginian and later Roman town in MinorcaMinorcaMin Orca or Menorca is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. It takes its name from being smaller than the nearby island of Majorca....
- Mago, Russia, a townlet in RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
- Mago National ParkMago National ParkMago National Park is one of the National Parks of Ethiopia. Located in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region about 782 kilometers south of Addis Ababa and north of a large 90° bend in the Omo River, the 2162 square kilometers of this park are divided by the Mago River, a...
, in southwest Ethiopia- Mount Mago a mountain in Mago National Park, southwest Ethiopia
- Mago RiverMago RiverMago River is a river of southern Ethiopia, entirely located in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region. It joins the Neri River to form the Usno River, a tributary of the Omo River....
a tributary of the Omo riverOmo RiverThe Omo River is an important river of southern Ethiopia. Its course is entirely contained within the boundaries of Ethiopia, and empties into Lake Turkana on the border with Kenya...
in Mago National Park, southwest Ethiopia
People:
- Mago (agricultural writer)Mago (agricultural writer)Mago was a Carthaginian writer, author of an agricultural manual in Punic which was a record of the farming knowledge of Carthage. The Punic text has been lost, but some fragments of Greek and Latin translations survive....
, a Carthaginian writer quoted and drawn on by Columella - Mago, a Japanese arcade game player.
- Mago (Barcid) (243 BCE - 203 BCE), a Carthaginian general, son of Hamilcar Barca and brother of Hannibal
- Mago (fleet commander)Mago (fleet commander)Mago was commander of the Carthaginian fleet under Himilco in the war against Dionysius I of Syracuse, 396 BCE.He is particularly mentioned as holding that post in the great sea-fight off Catania, when he totally defeated the fleet of the Syracusans under Leptines, the brother of Dionysius,...
, (died 383 BCE), a Carthaginian fleet commander, active in Sicily - Mago (general)Mago (general)Mago was commander of the Carthaginian fleet and army in Sicily in 344 BCE. When Timoleon had made himself master of the citadel of Syracuse after the departure of Dionysius, Hicetas, finding himself unable to cope single-handed with this new and formidable rival, called in the assistance of Mago,...
, a Carthaginian general active in Sicily in the mid 4th century BCE - The Magonids of the ruling dynasty of CarthageCarthageCarthage , implying it was a 'new Tyre') is a major urban centre that has existed for nearly 3,000 years on the Gulf of Tunis, developing from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC...
from 550 BCE to 340 BCE- Mago I of CarthageMago I of CarthageMago I of Carthage was the king of the Ancient Carthage from 550 BCE to 530 BCE and the founding monarch of the Magonid dynasty of Carthage. Mago I was originally a general...
(reigned c.550-c.530 BCE) - Mago II of CarthageMago II of CarthageMago the second was Shofet of Carthage from 396 to 375 BCE, and was a member of the Magonid dynasty. He became Shofet after the suicide of Himilco II in 396 BCE and was succeeded by Mago the third in 375....
(reigned 396-375 BCE) - Mago III of Carthage (reigned 375-344 BCE)
- Mago I of Carthage
- Andrea BargnaniAndrea BargnaniAndrea Bargnani , nicknamed "Il Mago" , is an Italian professional basketball player with the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association. He was selected first overall in the 2006 NBA Draft. He is a power forward/center standing at 213 cm and weighing 113.4 kg...
known as "Il Mago" (1985 -) Italian basketball player - Francisco Mago LecciaFrancisco Mago LecciaFrancisco Mago Leccia born in Tumeremo Bolívar State – Venezuela on May 21, 1931. Death in Caracas - Venezuela in March 2004. Mago is distinguished Venezuelan ichthyologist specialized in electric fish of rivers and lagoon of Venezuela and South America...
"Mago") (1931 - 2004), Venezuelan ichthyologist - Hannibal MagoHannibal MagoHannibal was a grandson of Hamilcar Mago.He was shofet of Carthage in 410 BC and in 409 BC commanded a Carthaginian army sent to Sicily in response to a request from the city of Segesta. He successfully took the Greek city of Selinus and then Himera...
(died 406 BCE) Carthaginian Shofet and General
In entertainment:
- Mago (album)Mago (album)Mago is a jazz album released by Billy Martin and John Medeski of the jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood. Mago was recorded over two days in July 2006, and was produced by Martin...
, a 2007 Jazz album by Billy Martin and John Medeski - Mägo de OzMägo de OzMägo de Oz is a Spanish folk/heavy metal band from Begoña, Madrid formed in mid-1988 by drummer Txus di Fellatio. In 1992, the band were finalists in the Villa de Madrid contest. Then, they went onto achieve great success in Spain, and in 1995, were declared Revolution Rock Band...
, a Celtic folk metal band from Spain - Nurarihyon no MagoNurarihyon no MagoNura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, known in Japan as is a manga series written and illustrated by Hiroshi Shiibashi. The series was first published in Shueisha as a oneshot in 2007. The manga has been continuously serialized in the Japanese manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump since March 2008 and has...
, a manga series