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Māris (name) Māris is a Latvian language, Latvian masculine given name, a cognate of the English Maurice (name), Maurice and may refer to: *Māris Ārbergs (born 1962), Latvian politician *Māris Bogdanovičs (born 1991), Latvian cyclist *Māris Bičevskis (b ...
, a Latvian masculine given name, including a list of people with the name * Maris (given name), including a list of people and mythical or fictional characters * Maris (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters * Maris the Great, a promotional performance artist based in Denver, Colorado


Places

* al-Maris in medieval Nubia * El Maris, Egypt * Maris Nunatak, a small coastal nunatak in Antarctica *
Via Maris Via Maris, or Way of Horus () was an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia – along the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Egypt, Israel, Turkey and S ...
, a trade route dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria * Maris, the Latin name of the
Mureș River Mureș may refer to: * Mureș County, Romania * Mureș (river) in Romania and Hungary (''Maros'') * Mureș culture, a Bronze Age culture from Romania See also * Târgu Mureș, the capital of Mureș County * Ocna Mureș, a town in Alba Cou ...
, as mentioned by Herodotus in 484 BC


Mythology

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Maris (mythology) Maris (or Mariś) was an Etruscan god often depicted as an infant or child and given many epithets, including ''Mariś Halna'', ''Mariś Husrnana'' ("Maris the Child"), and ''Mariś Isminthians''. He was the son of Hercle, the Etruscan equiv ...
, an Etruscan god of agriculture


Other uses

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Mari people The Mari ( ), also formerly known as the Cheremis or Cheremisses, are a Finno-Ugric peoples, Finno-Ugric people in Eastern Europe, who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama River, Kama rivers in Russia. They live mostly in the Mari E ...
* MARIS Maritime Archeological Research Institute at
Södertörn University Södertörn University (, abbreviated as SH), is a public university college () located in Flemingsberg in Huddinge Municipality, and the larger area called Södertörn, in Stockholm County, Sweden. In 2013, it had about 13,000 full-time and p ...
, Sweden * the planet
Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmosph ...


See also

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Mares (disambiguation) Mares are adult female horses or other equines. Mares may also refer to: * Mares (surname) (including a list of people with the name) * Marès, a French surname (including a list of people with the name) * Mareš, a Czech surname (including a list ...
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Maris Otter Maris Otter is a two-row, autumn sown variety of barley commonly used in the production of malt for the brewing industry. The variety was bred by Dr G D H Bell and his team of plant breeders at the UK's Plant Breeding Institute; the "Maris" pa ...
, a variety of barley * Maris Piper, Maris Peer and Maris Bard - varieties of potato *
Maris Wigeon Maris Widgeon is a heritage variety of wheat that has traditionally been used for thatching in the UK. This variety was developed in 1964 by the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridgeshire. The 'Maris' in the name, was derived from Maris Lane, the ...
, a variety of wheat * Marris, a surname {{disambiguation