Minas or MINAS may refer to:
People with the given name Minas
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Menas of Ethiopia
Menas () or Minas, throne name Admas Sagad I (Ge’ez: አድማስ ሰገድ, died 1563), was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1559 until his death in 1563, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was a brother of Gelawdewos and the son of Dawit II, ...
(died 1563)
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Saint Menas (Minas, 285–309)
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Minias of Florence (Minas, Miniato, died 250)
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Minas Alozidis (born 1984), Greek hurdler
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Minas Avetisyan (1928–1975)
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Minas Hantzidis (born 1966), Greek footballer
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Minas Hadjimichael (born 1956), Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Cyprus
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Minas Hatzisavvas (1948–2015), Greek actor
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Minas of Aksum, 6th-century bishop
People with the surname Minas
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Iskouhi Minas (1884–1951), French poet and writer of Armenian descent.
Places
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Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 Brazilian census, 2022 census. Located in ...
, Brazil
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Minas, Uruguay
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Minas Department, Córdoba, Argentina
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Minas Department, Neuquén, Argentina
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Minas, Cuba
Minas is a municipality and town in the Camagüey Province of Cuba.
Geography
The municipality borders with Sierra de Cubitas, Camagüey, Sibanicú, Guáimaro and Nuevitas. Its territory includes the villages of Anguila, Fomento, Gurugú, Las Pie ...
, a municipality in Cuba
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Minas, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
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Minas Basin in Nova Scotia
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Les Mines, a former Acadian community on the shores of the Minas Basin (called Minas or Mines in English)
Other uses
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Minas (band), an American bossa nova band
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Minas cheese
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Minas (game contract), a contract in the card game of Schafkopf
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Minas Tênis Clube, a social and sports club from Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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MINAS, a biochemistry database
* Minas, a
Cablebús station in Mexico City
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Minas Tirith, fictional city in ''Lord of the Rings''
Mina
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Mina (unit)
The mina (; ; ; ; ; ; ) is an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight for silver or gold, equivalent to approximately , which was divided into 60 shekels. The mina, like the shekel, eventually also became a unit of currency.
History
Sumerian
Fro ...
, an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight, and hence, also unit of currency
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Mina (Sikhism)
The Mīnās (Gurmukhi: ਮੀਣਾ; ''mīṇā'') were a heretical Sects of Sikhism, sect of Sikhs that followed Prithi Chand (1558–April 1618), the eldest son of Guru Ram Das, after his younger brother Guru Arjan was selected by the Guru to s ...
, a sect of Sikhism
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Mina (disambiguation)
Mina or MINA may refer to:
Places Iran
* Minaq, East Azerbaijan
* Mina, Fars
* Mineh, Lorestan Province
* Mina, Razavi Khorasan
* Mehneh, Razavi Khorasan Province
United States
* Mina, Nevada
* Mina, New York
* Mina, Ohio
* Mina, Sou ...
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