Tara Explained
Tara may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
Music
Fictional settings
Biology
Companies and media
People
Places
Natural features
- Tara (Drina), a river in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, a tributary of the Drina
- Tara (Irtysh), a river in Russia (in Novosibirsk and Omsk Oblasts), a tributary of the Irtysh
- Tara, an older name for the river Tragus, in Greece (in Arcadia)
- Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Japan (in Saga Prefecture)
- Tara Mountain, Serbia
- Tara National Park, Serbia
- Tara Island, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines
- Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland, a hill and a village
- Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, a ritual site of ancient high kings of Ireland
- Salar de Tara, a salt pan in Chile
- 5863 Tara, an asteroid
Populated places
Africa
- "Tara", Cairo, a squatted villa on Gezira Island, Cairo, Egypt, made notorious by its SOE occupants during World War II
- Tara, Zambia, a village in the Southern Province of Zambia
- Tara Subcounty, a region in Maracha District, Uganda
Asia
- Tara, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province
- Tara, Nepal, a village in Baglung District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of central Nepal
- Tara, Russia, several inhabited localities
- Tara, Saga, a town, mountain, and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
Australia
Europe
- Hill of Tara, an ancient site in County Meath, Republic of Ireland
- Tara, County Down, a townland in the civil parish of Witter, County Down, Northern Ireland
- Tara, County Offaly, a townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Republic of Ireland
North America
Religion
Schools
Titles
Transportation
- Tara Air, a Nepalese airline
- Tara, an oceanic research vessel used for the Tara expedition
- Tara Field, an airport in Georgia, United States
- Tara Station, a railway station in Saga Prefecture, Japan
- Tara Street, a major traffic route in Dublin, Ireland
- Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland
- IKCO Tara, a car
Other uses
- Đurđevića Tara Bridge, a bridge over the Tara River in northern Montenegro
- Tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
- Tara (cat), a family cat who saved a four-year-old boy from a dog attack
- Tara (Northern Ireland), a loyalist group
- Tara, Chertsey, a house in Surrey, UK, previously the home of drummer Keith Moon
- Tara Brooch, an artifact from Ireland
- Tara Foundation, a charity for transgender people
- Tara Hurdle, a horse race in Ireland
- Tara Mine, a zinc and lead mine near Navan, County Meath, Ireland
- Tara Theatre, an art house movie theater in Atlanta named after the plantation in Gone With the Wind
- Timed antagonistic response alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique
- Tāra, Māori language name for New Zealand dollar
- Yugoslav submarine Nebojša, or Tara, a submarine of the Yugoslav Navy
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