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Vona Peninsula
Vona is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Franco Vona (born 1964), Italian cyclist *Gábor Vona (born 1978), Hungarian politician * Vona Groarke, Irish poet See also * Vona, Colorado, town in the United States *Perşembe Perşembe (originated from Persian word meaning "Thursday"), also Heneti ( Laz and ka, ჰენეთი) and formerly Vona (), is a municipality and district of Ordu Province, Turkey. Its area is 217 km2, and its population is 30,101 (20 ..., a district center in Turkey (former name Vona) * Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA), a written arts organization {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Vona
Franco Vona (born 20 August 1964) is a former Italian racing cyclist. Vona won three stages of the Giro d'Italia and placed 6th overall in 1992. During the 1992 Tour de France he placed 2nd on the only two high mountain stages of the race and was inside the top 10 until the final ITT which dropped him to 11th. Later in his career he rode on the powerful Maglificio team of Patrick Lefevere and Roger De Vlaeminck and earned TTT stage victories in the 1993 and 1994 editions of the Tour de France. Major results ;1988 : 1st Stage 16, Giro d'Italia ;1989 : 3rd Overall, Vuelta a Venezuela :: 1st Stage 5 : 3rd Stage 19, Giro d'Italia : 12th, Züri-Metzgete ;1991 : 1st Stage 6, Tour de Suisse ;1992 : 6th Overall, Giro d'Italia :: 1st Stages 5 & 12 : 11th Overall, Tour de France :: 2nd Stages 13 & 14 ;1993 :21st Overall, Tour de France :: 1st Stage 4 (TTT) ;1994 : 16th, Liège–Bastogne–Liège :37th Overall, Tour de France :: 1st Stage 3 (TTT) ;1995 :48th Overall, Tour de France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gábor Vona
Gábor Vona (born Gábor Zázrivecz; 20 August 1978) is a Hungarian historian, teacher, and former nationalist politician who led the political party Jobbik from 2006 until 2018. He was the party's candidate for the position of prime minister in the 2010, 2014, and 2018 parliamentary elections. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2010 to 2018 and led the Jobbik parliamentary group until 2016. Under his leadership, the Jobbik founded its controversial and short-lived paramilitary wing Magyar Gárda, while the then minor extra-parliamentary party gained great popularity among voters since the 2006 nationwide protests and elevated into the National Assembly during the 2010 parliamentary election. Vona initiated to re-define Jobbik from a nationalist radical movement to a conservative people's party after 2014 when the party became the strongest opposition party to Viktor Orbán's Fidesz. Vona tendered his resignation after disappointing election results in the 2018 parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke is an Irish poet. Biography She has published fourteen books, including eight collections of poetry with the Gallery Press: ''Shale'' (1994), ''Other People's Houses'' (1999), ''Flight'' (2002), ''Juniper Street'' (2006), ''Spindrift'' (2009), ''X'' (2014), ''Double Negative'' (2019), and ''Link : Poet and World'' (2021). She is also the author of a translation of the eighteenth-century Irish poem, ''Lament for Art O'Leary'' ( Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire) (Gallery Books, 2008). and of ''Woman of Winter'' (2023), a version of the ninth-century Irish poem usually known as 'The Lament of the Hag of Beare', with illustrations by Isobel Nolan. ''Selected Poems'' was published in 2016 and won the Pigott Prize for Best Irish Poetry Collection. Her book-length essay on art frames and much else, ''Four Sides Full'', was also published in 2016. In 2022, New York University Press published ''Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara'', an innovative, mixed-genre account of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vona, Colorado
Vona is a statutory town in Kit Carson County, Colorado, United States. The population was 95 at the 2020 census. History Vona was named after Vona, the niece of an attorney from Burlington by the name of Pearl S. King. In 1936, a fire destroyed half of Vona's business district. Geography Vona is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics Transportation Interstate 70 passes just south of Vona. The Vona exit from I-70 is exit 412. U.S. Highway 24 runs just north of the interstate, from Seibert through Vona, Stratton and Bethune to Burlington. See also * List of municipalities in Colorado The U.S. Colorado, State of Colorado has 273 municipal corporation, active municipalities, comprising 198 towns, 73 City, cities, and two Consolidated city-county, consolidated city and county governments. The Denver, City and County of Denver ... References External links {{authority control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perşembe
Perşembe (originated from Persian word meaning "Thursday"), also Heneti ( Laz and ka, ჰენეთი) and formerly Vona (), is a municipality and district of Ordu Province, Turkey. Its area is 217 km2, and its population is 30,101 (2022). The town lies on the Black Sea coast at an elevation of . Legend and history Perşembe is on the Vona Peninsula on the Black Sea coast and is held to be the point where the legendary Jason and the Argonauts were forced to land during their struggle with the storms and currents of the Black Sea. For a long time Vona was part of the Roman Empire and its successors the Byzantine Empire and Empire of Trebizond. This era ended in 1461 when Trebizond was overturned by Sultan Mehmet II and Vona was brought into the Ottoman Empire, although there was a Turkish (Chepni Tribes) community in the town before this date. By 1520 the port of Vona was a predominantly Muslim town. Composition There are 54 neighbourhoods A neighbourhood (Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |