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BURA
Bura may refer to: Places * Bura (Achaea), a city in Greece * Boura, Burkina Faso (other), also spelled Bura * Bura, Iran (other) * Bura, Taita-Taveta District, Kenya * Bura, Tana River District, Kenya People and civilizations * Bura people or Kilba, an ethnic group in Nigeria * Bura language (also Bura-Pabir), a Chadic language spoken in Nigeria * Bura archaeological site, an ancient and medieval civilization in southwest Niger ** Bura culture, known for ceramics and metallurgy * John Bura (1944–2023), Ukrainian Greek Catholic prelate in the United States * Olha Bura (1986–2014), Ukrainian activist Sport and games * Bura (footballer) (born 1988), Portuguese footballer * Bura (water polo club), Croatian water polo club * Bura (card game), a Russian prisoners' card game Other * ''Bura'' (beetle), a genus of beetles * Bura (mythology), a figure in Greek mythology * Bura (wind), the Serbo-Croatian name for the bora wind in the northern Mediterran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bura, Taita-Taveta District, Kenya
Bura is a town in Taita-Taveta County, Kenya. Location The town is located in Mwatate sub-county, approximately , north-west of Mwatate, where the county headquarters are located. This is about west of Voi, the largest town in the county. This is about south-east of Nairobi, the capital and largest city in Kenya. Bura is located about north-west of the post-city of Mombasa, on the Indian Ocean coast. The coordinates of Bura, Taita-Taveta County are: 03°27'11.0"S, 38°18'44.0"E (Latitude:-3.453050; Longitude:38.312222). Overview Bura is situated in the Taita Hills. The geography is quite diverse, extending from the grassy fields, swamps and acacia forest of the plains, to dense patches of forest surrounded by semi-terraced farms on the steep hillsides. The climate of the area is strongly affected by its proximity to the ocean. The climate varies with the altitude. The lowlands are generally hot and dry, while the hills receive more rainfall and cooler temperatures. The m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olha Bura
Olha Vasylivna Bura ( uk, Ольга Василівна Бура; 22 July 1986 – 10 March 2014) was a Ukrainian activist who took part in the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv from late 2013 to early 2014. Born to a poor family in Busk Raion, she did not have a permanent place to work due to illness, doing various jobs in the family home, working briefly at a local bakery as well as doing childcare. Busk died after contracting a blood infection from her hand being injured by members of the Berkut some days before consulting doctors. She was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the Gold Star, a memorial plaque was installed on the primary school in she attended was attended and a sign in the Alley of Memory of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred of Lviv Region in Khodoriv was named for her. Biography On 22 July 1986, Bura was born in the village of , Busk Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. She was from a poor family, and was brought up in the village o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bura, Tana River District, Kenya
Bura is a town in Tana River County, Kenya. Location The town lies on the west bank of the Tana River, approximately 50 km north of Hola, the headquarters of Tana River County, and about 100 km south of Garissa Garissa ( so, Gaarrisa) is the capital of Garissa County, Kenya. It is situated in the former North Eastern Province. Geography The Tana River, which rises in Mount Kenya east of Nyeri, flows through the Garissa. The Bour-Algi Giraffe Sanctuar ... town. The coordinates of Bura are: 1°11'39.1S, 39°50'23.0"E (Latitude:-1.503606; Longitude:39.837802). Overview Bura is also known as Bura-Tana and Bura-West with postal code 70104. It is most know for being the centre for the Bura Irrigation and Settlement Project. The water treatments works in Bura town are a landmark that can be seen from 20 km. Bura West hosts Bura airport , which sits at an average altitude of .Bura is also the name of an administrative division in Garissa County. The headquarters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bura Culture
The Bura culture (Bura system) refers to a set of archeological sites in the lower Niger River valley of Niger and Burkina Faso. More specifically, the Iron Age civilization exemplified by the Bura culture was centered in the southwest portion of modern-day Niger and in the southeast part of contemporary Burkina Faso (formerly known as Upper Volta). Iron industry, in both smelting and forging for tools and weapons, had developed in West Africa by 1200 BC. The first-millennium Bura-Asinda culture in the West African Sahel has been radiocarbon dated as starting in the 3rd century AD and lasting until the 13th century. But very little is precisely understood about this "shadowy" and "mysterious" civilization and its culture because it was discovered only a few decades ago in 1975; and it was not until 1983 that the first archeological excavation was commenced. Named for the Bura archeological site near Bura in southwest Niger, the Bura culture produced a variety of distincti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bura (footballer)
Miguel Ângelo Marques Granja (born 17 December 1988), known as Bura, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a central defender for C.D. Mafra. He played 55 Primeira Liga matches for Paços de Ferreira, Beira-Mar and Penafiel, but spent most of his career in the second division where he made over 240 appearances with six teams, mainly Académico de Viseu. Club career Porto Born in Matosinhos, Porto Metropolitan Area, Bura began his youth career with hometown clubs Leixões S.C. and F.C. Infesta before joining FC Porto at the age of 17. Never included for a matchday squad with the team, he had his first senior experience in the third division on loan to G.D. Ribeirão, and professional one with Portimonense SC, S.C. Covilhã, Gil Vicente F.C. and F.C. Penafiel all in Segunda Liga. On 5 July 2010, Bura was loaned to Primeira Liga side F.C. Paços de Ferreira for the upcoming season. He made 15 total appearances for them, and was an unused substitute on 23 April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bura Language
Bura-Pabir (also known as Bura, Burra, Bourrah, Pabir, Babir, Babur, Barburr, Mya Bura, Kwojeffa, Huve, Huviya) is a Chadic language spoken in North-eastern Nigeria by the Babur/Bura people. Dialects are Pela, Bura Pela, Hill Bura, Hyil Hawul, Bura Hyilhawul, and Plain Bura. The language is closely related to Kilba, Chibok, Margi and a few order North-eastern Nigerian Languages. Phonology Bura has been reported to contrast a voiceless palatal lateral fricative, ''or'' , which is quite rare. There are thus five laterals in Bura: , though can be analyzed as a palatalized fricative, . Apart from this, its inventory is much like the very complex system of Margi. Orthography In the 2010 Bura-English Dictionary Roger Blench proposed an orthography similar to that of Hausa includes the Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered with the exceptio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bura (water Polo Club)
Bura may refer to: Places * Bura (Achaea), a city in Greece * Boura, Burkina Faso (other), also spelled Bura * Bura, Iran (other) * Bura, Taita-Taveta District, Kenya * Bura, Tana River District, Kenya People and civilizations * Bura people or Kilba, an ethnic group in Nigeria * Bura language (also Bura-Pabir), a Chadic language spoken in Nigeria * Bura archaeological site, an ancient and medieval civilization in southwest Niger ** Bura culture, known for ceramics and metallurgy * John Bura (1944–2023), Ukrainian Greek Catholic prelate in the United States * Olha Bura (1986–2014), Ukrainian activist Sport and games * Bura (footballer) (born 1988), Portuguese footballer * Bura (water polo club), Croatian water polo club * Bura (card game), a Russian prisoners' card game Other * ''Bura'' (beetle), a genus of beetles * Bura (mythology), a figure in Greek mythology * Bura (wind), the Serbo-Croatian name for the bora wind in the northern Mediterranean * Bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bura Archaeological Site
The archeological site of Bura is located in the Tillabéry Region, of the Tera Department, in southwest Niger. The Bura archeological site has given its name to the area's first-millennium Bura culture. Site description The Bura site consists of many individual necropoleis with coffins crested by unusually-distinctive terra cotta statuettes. The main necropolis itself has a diameter of about one kilometer. Burial mounds, religious altars, and ancient dwellings occur here over a large area. In 1983 a site 25 meters by 20 meters was excavated. Artifacts and looting Following the 1975 discovery and 1983 excavation of the Bura archeological site, and after a Bura-Asinda exhibition toured France in the 1990s, the ancient Bura earthenware statuettes became highly valued by collectors. The clay and stone anthropomorphic heads of the ancient and medieval Bura culture have been sought for their unusual abstraction and simplicity. Unfortunately, widespread looting and smugglin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bura (Achaea)
Bura (also Boura, Bira; grc, Βοῦρα) was an ancient polis (city-state) of Achaea, Greece, one of the 12 cities of the Achaean League. It is said to have derived its name from Bura, a daughter of Ion and Helice. The city was situated on a height 40 stadia from the sea, and southeast of Helike. Its name occurs in a line of Aeschylus, preserved by Strabo. It was swallowed up by the earthquake which destroyed Helike in 373 BCE, and all its inhabitants perished except those who were absent at the time. On their return they rebuilt the city, which was visited by Pausanias, who mentions its temples dedicated to Demeter, Aphrodite, Eileithyia and Isis. Strabo relates that there was a fountain at Bura called "Sybaris", from which the river and city in Magna Graecia, Italy derived its name. On the revival of the Achaean League in 280 BCE, Bura was governed by a tyrant, whom the inhabitants slew in 275 BCE, and then joined the confederacy. A little to the east of Bura was the river B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bura
John Bura ( uk, Іван Бура; June 12, 1944 – January 17, 2023) was a bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the United States. He served as the Auxiliary Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia from 2006 to 2019. From 2009 to 2014 he served as the Apostolic Administrator of the Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma. Biography Born in Wegeleben, Germany, Bura's family emigrated to Jersey City, New Jersey in 1950. He was educated at St. Basil Minor Seminary in Stamford, Connecticut and The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He was ordained a priest for the Archeparchy of Philadelphia on February 14, 1971 by Archbishop Ambrozij Andrew Senyshyn, O.S.B.M. As a priest his assignments included being a teacher and Vice-Rector of St. Basil Minor Seminary, Rector of St. Josaphat Seminary in Washington, D.C., pastor of Holy Ghost Church in Chester, Pennsylvania and St. Nicholas Church in Wilmington, Delaware. Pope Benedict XVI named B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bura (card Game)
Bura ( rus, Бура, ''" cutter"'') is a Russian, Ace-Ten, card game that is "particularly characteristic of Russian prisoners and ex-prisoners. Its alternative name of Thirty-One refers to the combination of three trump cards that wins the game. One of the main variants of this game is known as Kozel ("goat") or Bura Kozel. It is a point-trick game with the unusual feature that players may lead several cards of the same suit at once.''Bura'' at pagat.com. Retrieved 21 August 2020. Cards A 36-card, French-suited pack is used. Cards rank in the usual Ace-Ten order and are worth the usualAce-Ten game
An Ace-Ten game is a type of card game, highly popular in Europe, in which the Aces and ...
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Bura (beetle)
''Bura'' is a genus of ladybirds (family Coccinellidae, subfamily Sticholotidinae Sticholotidinae is a beetle subfamily in the family Coccinellidae Coccinellidae () is a widespread family of small beetles ranging in size from . They are commonly known as ladybugs in North America and ladybirds in Great Britain. Some ent ...). See also * List of Coccinellidae genera References External links Coccinellidae genera Taxa named by Étienne Mulsant {{Coccinellidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |