Tana (disambiguation)
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Places
- Lake TanaLake TanaLake Tana is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia...
, Ethiopia - Tana, NorwayTana, NorwayDeatnu or Tana is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tana Bru....
- Tana, short-hand form of AntananarivoAntananarivoAntananarivo , formerly Tananarive , is the capital and largest city in Madagascar. It is also known by its French colonial shorthand form Tana....
, capital of Madagascar - Tana or TanaisTanaisTanais is the ancient name for the River Don in Russia. Strabo regarded it as the boundary between Europe and Asia.In antiquity, Tanais was also the name of a city in the Don river delta that reaches into the northeasternmost part of the Sea of Azov, which the Greeks called Lake Maeotis...
, medieval trading city on the Sea of Azov, near the modern city of Azov - Tana BridgeTana BridgeTana Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses Tana river in Finnmark county in Norway. It is located in the small city also called Tana bru. The bridge is 220 metres long, and the main span is 194 metres.Tana Bridge was opened in 1948....
, Norway - Tana GlacierTana GlacierTana Glacier is a 17-mile-long glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins at Bagley Icefield and flows northwest to its 1950 terminus near the head of the Tana River. Its name, of Alaska Native origin, was first recorded by prospectors in 1900....
, Alaska - Tana River (Alaska)
- Tana River DistrictTana River DistrictTana River District is a district of Coast Province, Kenya. It is named after the Tana River itself. It has an area of and a population of 180,901 according to the 1999 census. The district capital is Hola ....
, Kenya - Tana River (Kenya)Tana River (Kenya)The long Tana River is the longest river in Kenya, and gives its name to the Tana River District. Its tributaries include the Thika. The river rises in the Aberdare Mountains to the west of Nyeri. Initially it runs east before turning south around the massif of Mount Kenya. The river then runs...
- Tana River (Norway)Tana River (Norway)Tana river , is a long river in Sápmi, in the Norwegian county of in Finnmark and the Lapland of Finland. The Sámi name means "Great River". The main tributaries of Tana are Anarjohka and Karasjohka....
- Tanna (island), an island in Vanuatu (alternate spelling)
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People
- Nick TanaNick TanaNick Tana is the former chairman of the Australian football club Perth Glory. He had been the chairman and the majority shareholder of Perth Glory from the club’s inception in 1995 until 2006....
, chairman of Perth Glory - Rawat TanaRawat TanaRawat Tana is a wheelchair racer from Thailand who competes at the Olympic level.At the 2004 Olympic Games, he finished 3rd in the demonstration sport of Men's 1500m wheelchair. In same event at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, he did not qualify for the final, after getting into a collision with...
, wheelchair racer - Tana, a character from Nintendo and Intelligent System's Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
- Tana and RiriTana and RiriTana and Riri is an Indian story about two girls born around 1564, who were asked to sing in the court of Akbar. When Akbar's court singer, maestro Tansen's preceptor died, he sang the raag "Deepak". The effect of singing this raag is said to be that the singer starts feeling an incurable heat in...
, the twin sisters who chose to die rather than sing in Akbar's court, in India - Tana GoertzTana GoertzTana Goertz was one of the candidates for the title of Donald Trump's The Apprentice in the television show's third season. Goertz was 37 when the season was recorded/produced. She ended as the runner-up in the season finale....
, The Apprentice (US season 3) contestant - Tana UmagaTana UmagaJonathan Ionatana Falefasa "Tana" Umaga, ONZM is a New Zealand rugby union footballer and former captain of the national team, the All Blacks. He played for the Hurricanes starting with the Super 12's inception in 1996 and took over the captaincy in 2003...
(born 1973), New Zealand rugby player
tana short for tanatswanashe
Other
- A minor Kazakh JüzJüzA jüz is one of the three main territorial divisions in the Kypchak Plain area that covers much of the contemporary Kazakhstan. Variably, a jüz is believed to be a confederation or alliance of Kazakh nomads...
"horde", a tribe belonging to the Kishi or Lesser Jüz, numbering ca. 25,000 - Tāna (Thaana, Taana), the writing system for the Divehi language spoken in the Maldives
- TánaTáin BóThe Táin Bó, or cattle raid , is one of the genres of early Irish literature. The medieval Irish literati organised their work into genres such as the Cattle Raid , the Voyage , the Feast , the Wooing , the Conception and the Death , rather than the familiar but...
, "raids", a genre of ancient Irish tales, usually about a "cattle raid" (Táin Bó) - The single form of TannaimTannaimThe Tannaim were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 70-200 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted about 130 years...
- Rabbinic sages whose views were record in the Mishnah - Tana (music), a type of musical pattern in Indian classical music embellishing or exposing a rāgaRagaA raga is one of the melodic modes used in Indian classical music.It is a series of five or more musical notes upon which a melody is made...
- TāneTaneIn Māori mythology, Tāne is the god of forests and of birds, and the son of Ranginui and Papatuanuku, the sky father and the earth mother, who lie in a tight embrace...
, the Māori god of forests and of birds - Tāne MahutaTane MahutaTāne Mahuta is a giant kauri tree in the Waipoua Forest of Northland Region, New Zealand. Its age is unknown but is estimated to be between 1,250 and 2,500 years old. It is the largest kauri known to stand today...
, a giant Kauri tree in the Northland Region of New Zealand