Maris may refer to:

Personal names

Māris (name) Māris is a Latvian masculine given name, a cognate of the English Maurice and may refer to: *Māris Ārbergs (born 1962), Latvian politician *Māris Bogdanovičs (born 1991), Latvian cyclist *Māris Bičevskis (born 1991), Latvian ice hockey pl ...

, 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) Maris is a surname with many origins. In Britain, the name (including ''De Maris'') may be of Old French origin (see Marais (surname)) Both the Greek and Dutch surnames can be matronymics from "Maria".Maris the Great, a promotional performance artist based in Denver, Colorado

Places

al-Maris {{for, the suburb of Luxor in Egypt, El Maris Al-Maris ( ar, المريس) was a Medieval Arabic name for Lower Nubia, the region of the Nile around the first and second cataracts, including Aswan. Because most of the sources for Nubian history duri ...

in medieval Nubia *

El Maris El Maris ( ar, المريس) is a suburb of al Uqsur, in Egypt. It is part of the Luxor Governorate Luxor Governorate has been one of Egypt's governorates since 7 December 2009, when former president Hosni Mubarak announced its separation f ...

, Egypt * Maris Nunatak, a small coastal nunatak in Antarctica *

Via Maris Via Maris is one modern name for 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 Târgu Mureș (, ; hu, Marosvásárhely ) is the seat of Mureș C ...

, as mentioned by Herodotus in 484 BC

Mythology

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 equivale ...

, an Etruscan god of agriculture

Other uses

* the

Mari people The Mari ( chm, мари; russian: марийцы, mariytsy) are a Finnic peoples, Finnic people, who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama River, Kama rivers in Russia. Almost half of Maris today live in the Mari El republic, with si ...

* MARIS Maritime Archeological Research Institute at

Södertörn University Södertörn University ( sv, Södertörns högskola, abbreviated as SH) is a public university college ( sv, högskola) located in Flemingsberg in Huddinge Municipality, and the larger area called Södertörn, in Stockholm County, Sweden. In ...

, Sweden * the planet

Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmos ...