Magas may refer to:
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Magas, Russia
Magas () is the capital city, capital types of inhabited localities in Russia, town of Ingushetia, Russia. It was founded in 1995 and replaced Nazran as the capital of the republic in 2002. Due to this distinction, Magas is the smallest capital of ...
, the capital of the Republic of Ingushetia
* Magas, the Persian name of
Maghas
Maghas or Maas, more properly, Mags or Maks, was the capital city of Alania, a medieval kingdom in the Greater Caucasus. It is known from Islamic and Chinese sources, but its location is uncertain, with some authors favouring North Ossetia and o ...
, the historical capital of medieval Alania
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Magas Urban Okrug
Magas () is the capital town of Ingushetia, Russia. It was founded in 1995 and replaced Nazran as the capital of the republic in 2002. Due to this distinction, Magas is the smallest capital of a federal subject in Russia. In 2019, it had a populat ...
, a municipal formation into which the town of republic significance of Magas in the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia is incorporated
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Magas Airport
Magas Airport (), also known as Magas Oskanov Airport or Sleptsovskaya Airport is an airport in the Republic of Ingushetia near Sunzha, serving the capital city of Magas and the largest regional city of Nazran. The name comes from the medieval ...
, an airport in the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia
*Magas, former name of
Zaboli
Mehrestan () is a city in the Central District of Mehrestan County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is also the administrative center for Zaboli Rural District.
Demographic ...
, a city in Iran
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Magās, a village in Semnan Province, Iran also known as Mazaj
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Magaš, Serbia
Magaš ( sr-cyrl, Магаш) is a village in the municipality of Bojnik, Serbia
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, a village near Bojnik
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Magas, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
Magas is a rural barrio with an urban area in the municipality of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,436.
Features and demographics
Magas has of land area and no water area. In 2010, its population was 3,436 with a population ...
, a barrio
People
*Ancient eastern-Mediterranean nobility:
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Magas of Macedon
Magas () was a Greek Macedonian nobleman who lived in the 4th century BC. His origin is obscure except that he came from the region of Eordaea. Little is known about his life.
Magas married the noblewoman Antigone, the child of Cassander and the ...
, a Greek Macedonian nobleman and the father of Berenice I of Egypt
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Magas of Cyrene
Magas of Cyrene (; born before 317 BC – 250 BC, ruled 276 BC – 250 BC) was a Greek King of Cyrenaica. Through his mother’s second marriage to Ptolemy I he became a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty. He managed to wrest independence for Cy ...
, grandson of Magas of Macedon, Greek Macedonian governor, and King of Cyrene
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Magas of Egypt
Magas (Greek Mάγας; 241 BC - 221 BC) was a grandson of Magas of Cyrene, being a son of Ptolemy III Euergetes (246–221 BC) and Berenice. He was put to death by his brother Ptolemy IV Philopator (221–204 BC), soon after the accession ...
, grandson of Magas of Cyrene
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Antonis Magas
Antonis Magas (; born 28 February 1994) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and W ...
(born 1994), Greek footballer
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Boris Magaš
Boris Magaš (Karlovac, August 22, 1930 – Rijeka, October 24, 2013) was a Croatian architect and architectural theorist, former Secretary of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and recipient of the Croatian National order of chivalry Orde ...
(1930–2013), Croatian architect
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Ljubomir Magaš
Ljubomir Magaš ( sr-cyr, Љубомир Магаш; 27 May 1948 – 10 November 1986) was a Serbian amateur boxer, streetfighter and gangster. He was commonly known by his nickname Ljuba Zemunac ( sr-cyr, Љуба Земунац, lit=Ljuba from ...
(1948–1986), Yugoslav amateur boxer, streetfighter, and gangster
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István Magas
István Magas (born 22 February 1952) is a Hungarian former water polo player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
He has been professor at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Willamette University, Texas Tech University, and at the ...
(born 1952), Hungarian water polo player
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Michela Magaš
Michela Magas is a designer, entrepreneur and innovation specialist, of Croatian-British nationality, and is the first woman from the Creative Industries to receive the European Woman Innovator of the Year award by the European Commission.
Fam ...
, Croatian-British entrepreneur
* Magas, nom de guerre of
Ali Taziev
Ali Musaevich Taziev (, ), also known as Akhmed Yevloev (; ), Magomet Yevloyev, and Emir Magas; born 19 August 1974) is the former leader of both the Ingushetia-based Ingush Jamaat and as the military wing of the Caucasus Emirate. On 30 Septembe ...
(born 1974), former Ingush commander of Caucasian Front & life-sentenced prisoner in Russia
Other
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Magas (brachiopod) Magas may refer to:
Places
* Magas, Russia, the capital of the Republic of Ingushetia
* Magas, the Persian name of Maghas, the historical capital of medieval Alania
*Magas Urban Okrug, a municipal formation into which the town of republic signific ...
, a
brachiopod genus
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Maga Brahmin
Maga Brahmins (also known as Sakaldwipiya Brahmin or Bhojaka Brahmins) are a class of Brahmins primarily concentrated in northern India.
Mentions
Hindu texts
The earliest extant Hindu text to mention the Magas is Samba Purana (c. 7th-8th cen ...
s, ancient Indian class of priests
* Magas, the Portuguese word for
Meigas, witches from Galician mythology
See also
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Maghas
Maghas or Maas, more properly, Mags or Maks, was the capital city of Alania, a medieval kingdom in the Greater Caucasus. It is known from Islamic and Chinese sources, but its location is uncertain, with some authors favouring North Ossetia and o ...
, the medieval capital of the Alans
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Maga (disambiguation)
"Make America Great Again" (MAGA, ) is an American political slogan most recently popularized by Donald Trump during Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, his successful presidential campaigns in 2016 and Donald Trump 2024 presidential cam ...
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