Tapa
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Places

  • Tapa, Estonia
    Tapa, Estonia
    Tapa is a town in Lääne-Viru County, Estonia. Located at the junction of the country's Tallinn-Narva and Tallinn-Tartu-Valga railway lines, it is an important centre of transit for freight as well as rail passengers...

    , a town
  • Tapa Airfield
    Tapa Airfield
    Tapa is an air base in Estonia located 3 km southwest of Tapa. During the Cold War it was home to 656 IAP which flew MiG-23 aircraft. In 1987, interceptor aircraft were dispatched from Tapa to intercept Mathias Rust's Cessna 172 in a famous Cold War incident ....

    , an interceptor aircraft base in Estonia
  • Tapa, Afghanistan, a place in Afghanistan
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

  • Taipei Adventist Preparatory Academy
    Taipei Adventist Preparatory Academy
    Taipei Adventist Preparatory Academy is a private international high school located in the Shihlin District of Taipei City, Taiwan...

    , a Christian high school in Taiwan

Other

  • Tapa cloth
    Tapa cloth
    Tapa cloth is a bark cloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, but as far afield as Niue, Cook Islands, Futuna, Solomon Islands, Java, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii...

    , a traditional cloth from Polynesia
  • The hats that usually accompany zoot suit
    Zoot suit
    A zoot suit is a suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. This style of clothing was popularized by African Americans, Mexican-Americans, and Italian Americans during the late 1930s and the 1940s...

    s.
  • Tapa (Filipino cuisine)
    Tapa (Filipino cuisine)
    Tapa is dried or cured beef, mutton or venison, although other meat or even fish may be used. Filipinos prepare thin slices of meat and cure it with salt and spices as a method of preserving it...

  • Tapa (game)
    Tapa (game)
    Tapa is a version of Backgammon played in Bulgaria and Macedonia. It is also played in Greece, where it is known as Plakoto. The word tapa means bottle cap....

    , similar to backgammon
  • Tapas (Sanskrit)
    Tapas (Sanskrit)
    Tapasya in Sanskrit means "heat". In Vedic religion and Hinduism, it is used figuratively, denoting spiritual suffering, mortification or austerity, and also the spiritual ecstasy of a yogin or tāpasá . In the Rigveda, the word is connected with the Soma cult...

    , a theoretical concept behind Hindu meditation
  • TaPa
    Tapa
    -Places:*Tapa, Estonia, a town*Tapa Airfield, an interceptor aircraft base in Estonia*Tapa, Afghanistan, a place in Afghanistan*Taipei Adventist Preparatory Academy, a Christian high school in Taiwan-Other:*Tapa cloth, a traditional cloth from Polynesia...

     (Tampereen Palloilijat), ice hockey club from Tampere, Finland

People(s)

  • Tapa Tchermoeff
    Tapa Tchermoeff
    Abdul "Tapa" Midgit Bey Ortsa Tchermoeff was the first and last Prime Minister of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus. He was in office from May 11, 1918 until the entire government was forced into exile by the advancing Bolsheviks in 1921...

  • Nupe
    Nupe
    The Nupe, traditionally called the Tapa by the neighbouring Yoruba, are an ethnic group located primarily in the Middle Belt and northern Nigeria, and are the dominant group in Niger and an important minority in Kwara State.-History:...

    , an African people traditionally called the "Tapa" by the neighboring Yoruba people

Abbreviations

  • TAPA, the standardly used abbreviation for the classical studies research journal Transactions of the American Philological Association
    Transactions of the American Philological Association
    Transactions of the American Philological Association is an academic journal established in 1869 and the official publication of the American Philological Association. It uses a wide range of approaches to explore pertinent issues in the history, culture, and language of ancient Greek and Roman...

  • Tapa (Transported Asset Protection Association), a voluntary association that sets freight security requirements in the global supply chain
  • VC Bird International Airport
    VC Bird International Airport
    V. C. Bird International Airport is located on the island of Antigua, northeast of St. John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda.- History :...

    , ICAO airport code
  • TAPA, abbreviation for the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
    Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
    Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts is an arts service organization representing professional theatre, dance and opera companies in the City of Toronto. Amongst their 175 members are the Canadian Opera Company, Luminato, Factory Theatre, Mirvish Productions, and Theatre Passe Muraille...

    .
  • TAPA, abbreviation for Trillium
    Trillium digital systems
    Trillium Digital Systems, developed and licensed standards-based communications source code software to telecommunications equipment manufacturers for the wireless, broadband, Internet and telephone network infrastructure. Trillium became one of the early pioneers to license source code...

    Advanced Portability Architecture
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