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Agra (other)
Agra or AGRA may refer to: Places Asia * Agra, a city in Uttar Pradesh and site of the Taj Mahal ** Agra Subah, a Mughal top-level imperial province ** Agra Province, a former region of British India ** Agra Presidency, a former region of British India ** Agra division, an administrative unit of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh ** Agra district, a district within the ''Agra division'' ** Agra Fort, located in Agra, India, also known as Lal Qila, Fort Rouge and Red Fort of Agra ** Agra (Lok Sabha constituency), a parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh ** Agra (Graduates Constituency), an electoral constituency in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council * Agra, Bhopal, a village in Madhya Pradesh, India * Agra (union council), an administrative unit in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan * Agra, Punjab, a town in the Punjab province of Pakistan * Agra, Sindh, a town in the Sindh province of Pakistan Europe * Agra, Lombardy, a municipality in Italy, located in the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agra
Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra is the fourth-most populous city in Uttar Pradesh and twenty-third most populous city in India. Agra's notable historical period began during Sikandar Lodi's reign, but the golden age of the city began with the Mughals. Agra was the foremost city of the Indian subcontinent and the capital of the Mughal Empire under Mughal emperors Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan. Under Mughal rule, Agra became a centre for learning, arts, commerce, and religion, and saw the construction of the Agra Fort, Sikandra and Agra's most prized monument, the Taj Mahal, built by Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his favourite empress. With the decline of the Mughal empire in the late 18th century, the city fell successively first to Marathas and later to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Settlements In The Rhodope Regional Unit ...
This is a list of notable settlements in the Rhodope regional unit, Greece: * Aigeiros * Amaxades * Aratos * Arisvi * Arriana * Fillyra * Gratini * Iasmos * Imeros Rodopis * Kalchas, Rhodope * Kechros * Kizari * Komotini * Maroneia * Neo Sidirochori * Organi * Sapes * Sostis By municipality {{Maroneia-Sapes div See also *List of municipalities and communities in Greece (1997–2010) *List of municipalities of Greece (2011) * Rhodope Rhodope may refer to: * Rhodope (mythology), a figure of Greek mythology * Rhodope Mountains, in Bulgaria and Greece * Rhodope (regional unit), of Greece * Rhodope (province), a Roman and Byzantine province * 166 Rhodope Rhodope (minor planet d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig. Saxony is the tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of , and the sixth most populous, with more than 4 million inhabitants. The term Saxony has been in use for more than a millennium. It was used for the medieval Duchy of Saxony, the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Saxony, and twice for a republic. The first Free State of Saxony was established in 1918 as a constituent state of the Weimar Republic. After World War II, it was under Soviet occupation before it became part of the communist East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markkleeberg
Markkleeberg is an affluent suburb of Leipzig, located in the Leipzig district of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. The river Pleiße runs through the city, which borders Leipzig to the north and to the west. Markkleeberg is known to be the entry point to a region of recultivated open-cast mining lakes south of Leipzig dubbed the ''Leipziger Neuseenland''. History The town now called Markkleeberg has its origins in several towns that have been merged over the years. The center of modern-day Markkleeberg used to be called Oetzsch. It was merged with the smaller outlying district Markkleeberg in 1911 and renamed Oetzsch-Markkleeberg. Oetzsch-Markkleeberg was in turn merged with Gautzsch and the whole town was called "Markkleeberg", although Markkleeberg was the smallest, because it sounded most Germanic at a time of Nazi-led Germanisation. The etymology of Markkleeberg may be "clover hill market town". The name of Oetzsch has most likely a Wendish origin. In 1316 it was ment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as well as the second most populous city in the area of the former East Germany after ( East) Berlin. Together with Halle (Saale), the city forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle Conurbation. Between the two cities (in Schkeuditz) lies Leipzig/Halle Airport. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (known as Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster River (progression: ) and two of its tributaries: the Pleiße and the Parthe. The name of the city and those of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agra (site)
The Agra site south of Leipzig in Germany includes an exhibition center as well as a green space with a total surface area of . The combination of a natural area and an event complex originated from the concomitance of a horticultural exhibition and an agricultural fair in the early years of the German Democratic Republic. The GDR agricultural fair named Agra gave its name to the site. With a covered exhibition area of , a car park with 250 spaces and an annual attendance of 750,000 visitors, it is the second largest event complex in Leipzig after the Leipzig fairgrounds of the Leipzig Trade Fair in the north of the city. The landscaped park includes a number of monuments distributed between meadows, gardens, bodies of water and groves. The park includes museums, for example, the ''Deutsches Fotomuseum'' (German Photo Museum), the Dölitz gatehouse and the watermill on the Mühlpleiße river. The site is intended for different types of fairs, exhibitions as well as festivals. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agra (beetle)
''Agra'' is a genus of beetles in the family ground beetle, Carabidae, the ground beetles. There are over 500 described species, but there are well over 1000 specimens in collections that have not yet been described. The common name elegant canopy beetles has been used for genus ''Agra''. Beetles of this genus have narrow heads and long, constricted necks. The tarsomeres, or the "feet" of the beetle, are wide and equipped with pads, allowing the beetle to grip leaves as it moves about and rests on plants. Females have "telescopic" reproductive organs, which they use to deposit eggs deep in the substrate. Adults of some species are probably predation, predators of other arthropods. Some have also been seen drinking sap and eating pollen. Adult beetles are nocturnal and attracted to lights. They rest on the undersides of leaves with their bodies aligned along the midrib, legs and antennae tucked in. The larvae develop in burrows and under tree bark, and are likely predatory. Adult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agra (2023 Film)
''Agra'' (, ) is a 2023 Hindi-language Indian drama film, co-written and directed by Kanu Behl. It features debutant Mohit Agarwal, Priyanka Bose, Ruhani Sharma, Vibha Chibber, Sonal Jha and Aanchal Goswami in pivotal roles. The film follows Guru, a young single call center employee who still lives with his parents. Consumed by frustration, he plunges into a fever bordering on insanity, between pathetic fantasies, dating apps and hysterical self-harm. It premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight on 24 May 2023 with the description, "''Agra'' grasps the reality of patriarchy in India through the prism of male sexual misery". Cast * Mohit Agarwal as Guru * Priyanka Bose as Priti * Ruhani Sharma as Mala * Rahul Roy as Daddy ji * Vibha Chibber as Mummy ji * Sonal Jha as Aunty ji * Aanchal Goswami as Chhavi, Guru's cousin Production In November 2022, the film was selected for India’s Film Bazaar strand, which is a part of Film Bazaar, the South Asia film p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agra (2007 Film)
''Agra'' is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by Chithiraiselvan, starring Vikas and Emi Mohan. It was released on 8 November 2007. Plot Cast Production The film marked the acting debut of Vikas, the son of dance choreographer John Babu. In December 2006, the crew of the film undertook a promotional campaign to ask the public to vote for the Agra-centred Taj Mahal in the New 7 Wonders of the World campaign organised by New 7 Wonders Foundation. In 2013, six years after the film's release, the film's director and producer P. Chithiraiselvan was arrested for failing to pay back loans on sums taken out for the production of ''Agra'' and ''Thalaivan'' (2014). Soundtrack Soundtrack was composed by C. S. Balu. The song "Moodu Nalla" is based on the song "Thanni Karuthiruchi" from ''Ilamai Oonjal Aadukirathu'' (1978). *"Chinna Chinna" - Shruthi Vandhana *"Ushaa Pannu" - Sathyan *"En Jeevan" - Karthik, Preethi *"Moodu Nalla" - Manikka Vinayagam *"Kadh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agra (surname)
Agra is a Galician and Portuguese surname, most frequently found in Brazil and the Rías Baixas area of Spain. Notable people with the surname include: * Alberto Agra (born 1963), Filipino former acting Secretary of Justice * Alfonso Agra (born 1959), Spanish actor * Bruno Agra (born 1980), Brazilian musician * Carmen Agra Deedy, Cuban-American children's author * Maria de Fátima Agra (born 1952), Brazilian botanist * Nélson Agra (born 1991), Portuguese footballer * Salvador Agra Salvador José Milhazes Agra (born 11 November 1991) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Boavista F.C. as a winger. In a journeyman career, he made over 200 Primeira Liga appearances for Olhanense, Braga, Académica, Nacion ... (born 1991), Portuguese footballer References {{Surname Galician-language surnames Portuguese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agra, Oklahoma
Agra is a town in northern Lincoln County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 339 at the 2010 census. An early real estate developer coined the town's name from the word "agriculture". History Agra began to form around the turn of 20th century. A post office opened in Agra on December 20, 1902, with Isaac C. Pierce serving as the first postmaster. The Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (which later became part of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway (also known as MKT or "Katy") built a line from Oklahoma City to Parsons, Kansas between 1902 and 1904. The townsite was developed after two local farmers, Frank Wheeler and Sam Holder, sold their lands along the railroad. American Land Loan and Trust Company divided the site into town lots.Wilson, Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agra, Kansas
Agra is a city in Phillips County, Kansas, Phillips County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 208. History Agra was first settled in 1888, and incorporated in 1904. Agra was a station on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. It was named for Agra in India. Geography Agra is located at (39.760686, -99.119592). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 267 people, 116 households, and 78 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 162 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 95.1% White (U.S. Census), White, 0.4% African American (U.S. Census), African American, 1.9% Native American (U.S. Census), Native American, 0.4% Asian (U.S. Census), Asian, and 2.2% from two or more races. Hispanic (U.S. Census), Hispanic or Latino (U.S. Census), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
