Chora may refer to:
Places
Greece
* Chora, old capital of the island of
Alonnisos
Alonnisos ( ), also transliterated as Alonissos, is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. After Skiathos and Skopelos it is the third member of the Northern Sporades. It is (2 nm) east of the island of Skopelos. Alonnisos is also the name of a vi ...
* Chora, village on the island of
Folegandros
Folegandros (also Pholegandros; ) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea that, together with Sikinos, Ios, Anafi and Santorini, forms the southern part of the Cyclades. Its surface area is and it has 719 inhabitants (2021).
It has three small ...
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Chora, Ios
Chora or Hora (), officially Ios (), is the capital town of Ios Island in Greece and is the largest settlement on the island. It contains many of the island's facilities of tourism such as hotels and apartments. The town has only some small roads ...
, capital of the island of Ios
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Chora, Messenia
Chora is a small town in the western part of Messenia, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. With a population of 2,609 inhabitants as of 2021, it is the largest settlement in the municipality of Pylos-Nestoras and the sixth largest settl ...
, a small town in Messenia in the Peloponnese
* Chora, principal town on the island of
Mykonos
Mykonos (, ; ) is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island has an area of and rises to an elevation of at its highest point. At the 2021 census, there were 10,704 inhabitants, most of ...
* Chora, an alternative name for
Naxos city
Naxos (), commonly referred to as ''Chora'' (Greek language, Greek: Χώρα, meaning 'town'), is a city and a former Municipalities and communities of Greece, municipality on the island of Naxos, in the Cyclades, Greece. The community has 8,897 ...
on the island of Naxos
* Chora, principal town on the island of
Patmos
Patmos (, ) is a Greece, Greek island in the Aegean Sea. It is famous as the location where, according to Christian belief, John of Patmos received the vision found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament, and where the book was written.
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Chora Sfakion
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, a town on the south coast of Crete
* Chora, the main town of the island of
Kythira
Kythira ( ; ), also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira, is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is traditionally listed as one of the seven main Ionian Islands, although it is dist ...
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Chora (woreda)
Chora is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Illubabor Zone, Chora is bordered on the south by the Jimma Zone, on the west by Yayu, on the northwest by Supena Sodo, on the north by Dega, and on the east by Bedele. T ...
, a district in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
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Chora, Iran
Chorreh (, also Romanized as Choreh and Chorrah; also known as Chavareh, Chorā, and Churra) is a village in Dasht-e Veyl Rural District, Rahmatabad and Blukat District, Rudbar County, Gilan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic ...
, village in Gilan Province
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Chora District
Chora District is a district of Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan. The district center is the town of Chora, with a population of about 3,000. It is a rural town with no industry beyond livestock, agriculture, and small merchants.
A ribbon-cutting ...
, in the Uruzgan province of Afghanistan
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Chora, Afghanistan
Chora () is a town and the capital of Chora District in Uruzgan Province in southern Afghanistan. Chora has a population of about 3,000. It is a rural town with no industry beyond livestock, agriculture, and small merchants.
History
During the Wa ...
, the capital of the Chora District above.
* Diocese of Chora, of the
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia is the Australian archdiocese of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the wider communion of Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox Christianity. The archdiocese is a jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patr ...
See also
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Chora Church
The Chora Church or Kariye Mosque () is a Byzantine architecture, Byzantine church, now converted to a mosque (for the second time), in the Edirnekapı, Istanbul, Edirnekapı neighborhood of Fatih district, Istanbul, Turkey. It is famous for ...
, a Byzantine church in Istanbul
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Chora (software)
Horde is a free web-based groupware. The components of this groupware rest on the Horde framework, a PHP-based framework provides all the elements required for rapid web application development. Horde offers applications such as the Horde IMP ...
, a web-based CVS repository viewer
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Miura Chora
was a Japanese poet raised in Ise, in the Mie Prefecture of Shima Province on the island of Honshu, Japan. He traveled throughout the country composing poems and helped lead the Matsuo Bashō revival movement of the eighteenth century.
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(1729–1780), Japanese poet
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Khôra
In semiotics, ''khôra'' (also ''chora''; ) is the space that gives a place for being. The term has been used in philosophy by Plato to designate a receptacle (as a "third kind" 'triton genos'' '' Timaeus'' 48e4), a space, a material substratum ...
'', Greek term used by Plato to describe neither being nor nonbeing
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Kura (administrative division)
Kura or Koura () was a term used by Muslims to describe the political administrative units of Egypt, equivalent to the nomes of pre-Islamic times. These administrative units are smaller than the modern governorates of Egypt.
In Egypt
The Arabized ...
, medieval administrative unit derived from the term 'chora'
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Hora (disambiguation)
Hora may refer to:
Companies
* Hora (company), a Romanian manufacturer of stringed musical instruments
People, real & mythological
* Hora (pl. Horae), figure from Greek mythology
* Hora (surname)
* Hora, a member of the Japanese duo Schwarz ...
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Khora (disambiguation)
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