Mora may refer to:
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Mora (surname) Mora is a Spanish surname.
Origins
Mora is a surname with old Roman (Latin) origins that originated in Spain and Portugal, but Mora was first found in Castile, one of medieval Spain's most important Christian kingdoms.
Mora translates to "blac ...
Places
Sweden
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Mora, Säter
Mora, also called Mora by, is a locality situated in Säter Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is ...
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Mora, Sweden
Mora is a locality and the seat of Mora Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 10,896 inhabitants in 2010.
History
There are signs of human activity in the surroundings of Mora dating from 4000 BC. The earliest found buildings in Mora are ...
, the seat of Mora Municipality
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Mora Municipality, Sweden
Mora Municipality (''Mora kommun'') is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Mora.
The present municipality was created in 1971, when four older municipal entities were amalgamated.
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United States
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Mora, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
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Mora, Minnesota, a city
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Mora, Missouri, an unincorporated community
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Mora County, New Mexico
) is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,881. Its county seat is the census-designated place (CDP) Mora. The county has another CDP, Watrous, a village, Wagon Mound, and 12 smaller unincorporated ...
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Mora, New Mexico, a census-designated place and the county seat
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Mora River, partially in Mora County
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Mora, Washington, a former settlement
Elsewhere
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Mora, Cordillera, Bolivia
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Mora, Cameroon
Mora is a town in northern Cameroon. Mora has a population of 55,216 making it the 5th biggest city in Far North.
The German fort of Mora was the last German fort in Cameroon to surrender during World War I. After a long time under siege, Cap ...
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Mora (canton)
Mora is the seventh canton in the San José province of Costa Rica.
Toponymy
Originally designated as Pacaca, a cacique name, the canton's name was changed to Mora in honor of Juan Rafael Mora Porras (1814-1860), the second President of Costa R ...
, San José, Costa Rica
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Mora, Cyprus, a village
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Mõra
Mõra is a village in Kastre Parish, Tartu County in eastern Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, ...
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Mora, Maharashtra
Mora is a port serving the town of Uran in Maharashtra, India. Ferry services connect to Ferry Wharf and Gateway of India in Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian ...
, India, a port serving the town of Uran
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Mora, Portugal
Mora () is a municipality in Évora District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,978, in an area of 443.95 km2.
The present Mayor is Paula Cristina Calado Chuço, elected by the Socialist Party in 2021. The municipal holiday is Easter ...
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Mora, Spain, a town and municipality in the province of Toledo
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Mora de Rubielos, a town in Aragón, Spain
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Morea Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: Eyālet-i Mōrâ), a former Ottoman Empire province in what is now Greece
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1257 Móra
1257 Móra, provisional designation , is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 15 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 8 August 1932, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southwes ...
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Sports
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Mora CF, a Spanish football team
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Mora IK, an ice hockey club in Mora, Sweden
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IFK Mora, a sports club in Mora, Sweden
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IFK Mora Fotboll, a football club in Mora, Sweden
Warfare
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Mora (military unit), an ancient Spartan unit of about 600 soldiers
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First Battle of Mora, an 1847 battle of the Mexican–American War
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Second Battle of Mora, an 1847 battle of the Mexican–American War
Other uses
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''Mora'' (album), a 2011 album by Hungarian industrial nu metal band FreshFabrik
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MORA (aviation)
A minimum off-route altitude (MORA) provides a quick way for an aircraft pilot to read the minimum altitude required for terrain and obstacle clearance. MORAs give at least 1,000 feet altitude clearance above terrain and obstacles such as radio ma ...
, minimum off-route altitude
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Mora (drink), a drink consisting of blackberry juice, water and sugar
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''Mora'' (fish), a genus of fish in the family Moridae
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''Mora'' (plant), a genus of plants in the pea family ''Fabaceae''
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Mora (linguistics)
A mora (plural ''morae'' or ''moras''; often symbolized μ) is a basic timing unit in the phonology of some spoken languages, equal to or shorter than a syllable. For example, a short syllable such as ''ba'' consists of one mora (''monomoraic''), ...
, a unit of sound
** ''mōra'', the modern Japanese equivalent; see
On (Japanese prosody)
''On'' (音; rarely ''onji'') are the phonetic units in Japanese language, Japanese poetry. In the Japanese language, the word means "sound". It includes the phonetic units counted in haiku, tanka, and waka (poetry), other such poetic forms. Known ...
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Mora (music store), a music download store by Sony
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Mora Banc Grup, joint name of two Andorran banks
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Mora (mythology), in Slavic mythology
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''Mora'' (ship), the flagship of William the Conqueror
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Mora station, Busan, South Korea, a railway station
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Mora clock
Gustavian Mora clocks are a type of longcase clock which were made in, and derived their name from, the town of Mora in Dalarna province, Sweden. Production began in the late 18th century and continued through most of the 19th century, finall ...
, a type of 19th-century Swedish longcase clock
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Mora knife, a type of knife made by various makers in Mora, Sweden
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Cyclone Mora, a tropical cyclone that affected Bangladesh in 2017
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Siege of Mora
The siege of Mora or Siege of Moraberg, between Allied and besieged German troops, took place from August 1914 to February 1916 on and around the Mora mountain in northern Kamerun during the Kamerun campaign of the First World War. After more tha ...
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Mora v. McNamara
''Mora v. McNamara'', 389 U.S. 934 (1967), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court was asked to rule on the case of a conscientious objector (a member of the Fort Hood Three) who claimed that the U.S. war against Vietnam was an illegal ...
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Stones of Mora
The Stones of Mora () is a historic location in Knivsta, Sweden. Several Medieval kings of Sweden were proclaimed at
the assembly of Mora near modern Uppsala. It was moved in the 15th century and was considered to have been lost. However, ther ...
, the place where Swedish kings were elected
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De la Mora (disambiguation) De la Mora is a surname. "De la," in several Romance languages (including Spanish and Romanian), means "from." "Mora," in Spanish, translates to "mulberry."
Etymology
"Mora" might represent a topographic surname for a family who lives or lived ...
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Morea (disambiguation)
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Moria (disambiguation)
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Morra (disambiguation)
Morra can mean:
People
* Alberto di Morra (c. 1100/1105-1187), Pope Gregory VIII
* Bernardino Morra (died 1605), Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Aversa
* Claudio Morra, (born 1995) Italian footballer
* Galal al-Morra, Egyptian ...
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Moras
Moras is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Isère department
The following is a list of the 512 Communes of France, communes in the French Departments of France, department of I ...
, a commune in France
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