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Boya(caste)
Boya may refer to: *Boya, Western Australia *Boya, Nepal *Boya people, an ethnic group in Sudan *Boya (caste), Boya caste, Boya caste of India *Mireia Boya Busquet (born 1979), Spanish scientist and politician *Pierre Boya (born 1984), Cameroonian footballer * Umin Boya (born 1978), Taiwanese aborigine writer, director and actor *Yu Boya, ancient Chinese guqin player *''Guangya'', ancient Chinese book, also called ''Boya'' {{Disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boya, Western Australia
Boya is a locality on the Darling Scarp, in the Shire of Mundaring, Western Australia; it is on the south side of Greenmount, Western Australia, Greenmount Hill, and just west of Darlington, Western Australia, Darlington. The name of is a local Noongar language, Noongar word meaning or , and was imposed by government officials in the early twentieth century. Quarries It was crucial as a site of quarries. The Mountain Quarry and the Government Quarry were both important blue stone quarries in their time. The Fremantle Harbour, harbour and moles at Fremantle were built using stone from the Government Quarry. The Government Quarry (on the south eastern part of the locality) was variously named during its time of operation as ''C. Y. O'Connor, O'Connor's quarry'', the ''Fremantle Harbour Works Darlington Quarry'', the ''Public Works Quarry'', the ''Government Quarry'', and, currently, as ''Hudman Road Quarry''. Being at the edge of the Greenmount National Park and the Hudman Roa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boya, Nepal
Boya is a Village Development Committee in Bhojpur District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal. The 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the main towns and villages of each ... counted 4,107 persons in 447 individual households in Boya. References External linksUN map of the municipalities of Bhojpur District Populated places in Bhojpur District, Nepal {{Bhojpur-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boya People
The Boya (also spelled Buya; called Larim and Langorim by the Didinga people) are a Surmic ethnic group numbering 20,000 to 25,000 people living in Budi County, part of the Greater Kapoeta region of the South Sudan South Sudan (), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the ...ese state of Eastern Equatoria. The language of the Boya is the Surmic Narim language, related to that of the Didinga, Tenet and Murle in South Sudan. The people mostly live in the south and west Boya Hills, in the Mt. Kosodek and Mt. Lobuli areas. The main town is Kimatong, at the foot of the hills. They are agro-pastoralists, cultivating sorghum, maize, and beans, but mainly involved in livestock herding, hunting game and fishing. Notable people * Lopez Lomong, an American track athlete and Olympian * Peter Lom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boya (caste)
The Nayak (also referred to as Nayaka, Bedar) is a disparate Indian community found in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu. They are traditionally considered as "militant caste", who ruled parts of South India and had served the ruling powers as administrators (Nayakas of Chitradurga, Nayakas), raiders and had other martial pursuits. In Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu they are classified as an Other Backward Class. History In 1909 the scholar Edgar Thurston wrote that the Bellary Gazetteer said: The earliest reference to "Boyas" is found in an inscription of the Eastern Chalukyas, Eastern Chalukya ruler Vishnuvardhana II, where land grants are made to several people from a variety of different villages, all with ''Boya'' appended to their name. Earlier colonial scholars thought it simply meant an "inhabitant of"; later scholarship suggests the recipients could have been from the Boya community."Boya, in Telugu, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mireia Boya Busquet
Mireia Boya Busquet (born 1979) is a Catalan scientist, activist, and politician from Spain. She is a councilor of the Aran municipality of Les. Since February 2018 she has been part of the national secretariat of the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP). She was a member of the Catalan Parliament from 2016 to 2017. Biography The daughter of Ernesto Boya and the politician Maria Pilar Busquets, she has a degree in Environmental Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2002), a master's degree in Landscape Design (2004), and a PhD in Land Management and Planning (2009) from the Université de Montréal. In the professional field, she is a consultant and adjunct lecturer ("asociada") of the Humanities Department of Pompeu Fabra University. Mireia Boya Busquet has been a fighter for the recognition of Occitan identity of the Valley of Aran, and was the first member of the Catalan Parliament to use the Aranese dialect in the Parliament of Catalonia. Her brother, , h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Boya
Pierre Boya (born 16 January 1984) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a striker. Club career On 10 November 2003, Boya signed a four-year contract with Partizan. He scored a goal on his debut for the club two weeks later in a 3–1 home league victory over Radnički Obrenovac. The highlight of his career at Partizan was during the 2004–05 UEFA Cup group stage, when Boya scored both goals for his team in their 2–2 away draw with Lazio. He was eventually unable to find the back of the net for a year and a half. In the meantime, Boya failed to convert a penalty in the shootout versus Artmedia Bratislava in the return leg of the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round that would have qualified Partizan for the group stage. He finally ended his goal drought on 8 April 2006, netting a brace in a 3–1 away league win against Voždovac. In the summer of 2007, Boya moved to Rapid București on a free transfer. He scored seven goals in 21 leagu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umin Boya
Umin Boya (born March 1, 1978), also known as Ma Chih-hsiang (), is a Taiwanese aborigine (half aborigine on his father's side) writer, director and actor, and director of the historical baseball film '' Kano'' (2014). He also starred in Wei Te-sheng's '' Seediq Bale'' (2011). Career Acting Boya has appeared in a number of Taiwanese films and TV dramas, his first film role in Sung Pe Liu's ''Angels of Vengeance'' (1993). His first major role was in Wang Shaudi’s TV series Big Hospital, Little Doctor (2000). In 2002, he appeared in Wen-tang Cheng's ''Somewhere Over the Dreamland'' (which won a Golden Horse Award for Best Taiwanese Film of the Year) and played "Ming-hsien" in Ming-tai Wang's ''Brave 20'' (2002). In 2003, he appeared in the TV series ''Crystal Boys'' as A-Fong and ''Banquet'' (2003-2004) where, for his work in both series, he received nominations for a Golden Bell (Taiwan's equivalent to the Emmys) Best Supporting Actor award. In 2004, he played the role of "Hsiao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yu Boya
Bo Ya () was a Chinese '' qin'' player from the state of Chu (), which is roughly equivalent to modern-day Jingzhou, Hubei. He lived during the Spring and Autumn period or Warring States period. His complete name is often incorrectly given as Yu Boya () in '' Stories to Caution the World'' (), so he is sometimes referred to with the name of Yu Boya in modern literature. However, Bo Ya is the correct name, which is clarified in '' Lüshi Chunqiu'' (). Life Learning Guqin Bo Ya is well known in the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period for his Guqin skill. According to ''Qincao (琴操）''written by Cai Yong, He learned his Guqin skill from Chenglian, another famous Guqin player. When he was studying Guqin, his teacher brought him to Mount Penglai and left Bo Ya. Bo Ya was immersed in the natural sound of the waves and the mountain forest, and wrote down a piece of music called Shuixiancao (水仙操). After this experience, he becomes one of the best Guq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
