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Qala (other)
Qala or qal'a () may refer to: * Qala, Azerbaijan * Qala, Malta Qala () is an administrative unit of Malta, on the island of Gozo, with a population of 1,929 as of September 2019. Nearby is Ħondoq ir-Rummien, a coastline with salt pans and caves. Etymology The name Qala derives from Siculo-Arabic. Qala C ..., a village on Gozo Island, Malta It may also refer to: * ''Qala'' (film), a 2022 Indian Hindi-language psychological-drama film ** ''Qala'' (soundtrack), its soundtrack album by Amit Trivedi and Sagar Desai See also * Kala (other), Persian alternate spelling of Arabic ''qal'a'' * Qalat (other), places whose names contain the words Qalat, Qelat, Kalat, Kalaat, Kalut, or Kelat * Qalat (fortress) * Qila (other), Persian (Urdu, Hindi) variant of Arabic ''qal'a'' {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qala, Azerbaijan
Qala (also, Gala and Kala-Machtagi) is a settlement and municipality in Khazar raion, Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,857. Gala State Historical Ethnographic Reserve is located in Qala. The name of the village of Qala is directly related to the "fortress". At first glance, such a simple explanation of the toponym is based on historical and archaeological facts on the one hand, and folk etymology on the other. Some locals interpret the name of the village as "protected place", in other words, an invincible place, a village. The other part is connected with the literal meaning of the word, ie "fortress". History Historical evidence further confirms the second hypothesis. Thus, the fortifications and observation towers built here in the first half of the XIV and XVII centuries prefer to accept this possibility as true. This fortress, which dates back to the XIV century, was built on a rock at the highest point of the village. Parallel scientific comparisons show that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qala, Malta
Qala () is an administrative unit of Malta, on the island of Gozo, with a population of 1,929 as of September 2019. Nearby is Ħondoq ir-Rummien, a coastline with salt pans and caves. Etymology The name Qala derives from Siculo-Arabic. Qala Council Members Paul Buttigieg (PL) Mayor of Qala, Ivan Cefai (PL) Deputy Mayor of Qala, Joseph Buttigieg (PL), Karl Buttigieg (PN), Valerie Cassar Mejlak (PN), About the town Qala is first referred to in a fifteenth-century portolan in the Vatican Library. Its name refers to the ('port') of . It is the easternmost village of Gozo. The development of the present settlement began in the second half of the seventeenth century. Except for a few sheltered inlets like Ħondoq ir-Rummien, Qala's coastline is largely rugged. Sea caves along the coast include Għar Minka, which is accessible only by boat. Qala is located at the easternmost point of Gozo, and is the village furthest from the capital Victoria and closest to the rest of the Maltes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qala (film)
''Qala'' () is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language period psychological drama film, written and directed by Anvita Dutt. The film is produced by Karnesh Sharma under Clean Slate Filmz and stars Tripti Dimri, Swastika Mukherjee, and Babil Khan in his film debut. ''Qala'' was released on Netflix on 1 December 2022. It is loosely based on K. Viswanath's '' Swathi Kiranam'', and Miloš Forman's '' Amadeus''. At the 2023 Filmfare OTT Awards, ''Qala'' received 6 nominations, including Best Web Original Film, Best Actress in a Web Original Film (Dimri) and Best Supporting Actress in a Web Original Film (Mukherjee), and won Best Production Design (Web Original Film) (Meenal Agarwal). Plot Set in the 1940s, ''Qala'' is about the tumultuous relationship between an aspiring singer and her domineering mother. The movie begins with Qala Manjushree, who has just won the "Golden Vinyl." She is being interviewed by several journalists who mention her brother. Distraught, Qala replies that she d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qala (soundtrack)
Qala is the official soundtrack to the 2022 Indian psychological drama of the same name, directed by Anvita Dutt, and produced by Clean Slate Filmz. The soundtrack was composed by Amit Trivedi, with lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya, Varun Grover, Swanand Kirkire and Kausar Munir. The drama's chronology was by Sagar Desai. The album is known for its fusion of classical Indian music and modern cinematic elements. Background ''Qala'' is set in the 1940s, during the early days of the Hindi film industry. Trivedi aimed to create melodies that felt authentic to vintage Hindi musical films while appealing to contemporary listeners. He studied the works of C. Ramchandra, S. D. Burman, and Naushad to inform his compositions, focusing on Dutt's "mother-daughter" story, which he felt had a "real haunting quality." In an interview with Swati Chopra of ''The Quint'', when asked about the soundtrack's inspiration from Guru Dutt's filmography, Dutt stated, "We never specifically talked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kala (other)
Kala or Kalah may refer to: Sanskrit words *Kāla, meaning 'time' or 'black', and in various Indian religions the personification of time as a deity ** an epithet of the Hindu god Yama ** an epithet of the Hindu god Shiva * Kalā, meaning 'performing arts' Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Kala (comics), in Marvel comics * Kala (Tarzan), adoptive mother of Tarzan *Kala, in the animation ''The Jungle Book'' *Kala, in the 1987 TV series ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' *Kala, in the TV series '' Sense8'' *King Kala, in the comic strip ''Flash Gordon'' **General Kala, in the 1980 film Flash Gordon * Kala Shetty, villain portrayed by Rami Reddy in the 1998 Indian film '' Gunda'' Films * ''Kala'' (2021 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film *'' Dead Time: Kala'', a 2007 Indonesian film Music * ''Kala'' (album), by M.I.A., 2007 ** Kala Tour, the tour associated with the album *''Kala'', a 2015 album by Trevor Hall * Kala (band), a Filipino band Places * Kala e Dodë ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qalat (other)
Qalat, Qelat, Kalat, Kalaat, Kalut, or Kelat, may refer to: * Qalat (fortress), a fortified place or fortified village Afghanistan * Qalat, Afghanistan, capital of Zabul Province * Kalat, Badakhshan, a small village in the Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province * Khanate of Kalat, a historical country Algeria * Qalat Ibn Salama, a fortress near Tihert (present-day Tiaret) Bahrain * Qal'at al-Bahrain, an archaeological site Burma * Kalat, Banmauk, Burma Indonesia *North Kalimantan, known in Indonesian as ''Kalimantan Utara'' and abbreviated to Kalut Iran * Kalat, Kangan, Bushehr Province * Kalat, Tangestan, Bushehr Province * Kalat, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari * Kalat, East Azerbaijan * Qalat, Bavanat, Fars Province * Qalat, Jahrom, Fars Province * Qalat, Evaz, Fars Province * Qalat, Qir and Karzin, Fars Province * Qalat, Shiraz, Fars Province * Kalat, Hormozgan * Kalut, Iran, Hormozgan Province * Qalat-e Bala, Hormozgan Province * Kalat-e Mahmak, Hor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qalat (fortress)
Qalat or kalata () in Persian,For the derivation of the Arabic term from the Persian, see Leslau (1987) p. 426, citing Fraenkel (1886) p. 237 and Belardi (1959) pp. 147-150. * Leslau, Wolf (1987). ''Comparative dictionary of Geʻez (Classical Ethiopic): Geʻez-English, English-Geʻez, with an index of the Semitic roots''. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbadenpage 426 * (1886). ''Die Aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen'' (''The Aramaic Loanwords in Arabic''). Brill Publisherspage 237 , in German, reproduced from original in 1962 by , Hildesheim, , and again in 1982, * Belardi, Walter (1959). "Arabo qal‘a". '' AION Linguistica'' 1: pp. 147—150 and qal'a(-t) or qil'a(-t) () in Arabic, means 'fortress', 'fortification', 'castle', Reprint of first edition. or simply 'fortified place'. The common English plural is "qalats". Qalats can range from forts like Rumkale to the mud-brick compound common throughout southwest Asia. The term is used in the entire Muslim w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
