Mora may refer to:

People

José Maria Mora José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''J ...

(1847–1926), Cuban-American photographer, often credited as "Mora" *

Mora (singer) Gabriel Armando Mora Quintero (born April 18, 1996), better known by his stage name Mora, is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is known for producing, composing, and collaborating on singles such as "Una Vez" and " Hibiki ...

(born 1996), a Puerto Rican singer *

Mora (surname) Mora is a Spanish and Portuguese 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 tran ...

, a Spanish name (includes a list of people with the name)

Places

Sweden

Mora, Säter Mora, also called Mora village, by, is a urban areas of Sweden, locality situated in Säter Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 817 inhabitants in 2010. References

Populated places in Säter Municipality {{Dalarna-geo-stub ...

, Sweden *

Mora, Sweden Mora is a urban areas of Sweden, locality and the seat of Mora Municipality, Sweden, 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 ...

, the seat of Mora Municipality *

Mora Municipality, Sweden Mora Municipality () 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. Localities * Bergkarlås * ...

United States

Mora, Louisiana Mora is an unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana Louisiana ( ; ; ) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississ ...

, an unincorporated community *

Mora, Minnesota Mora is a city and the county seat of Kanabec County, Minnesota, Kanabec County, Minnesota It is located at the junction of Minnesota highways Minnesota State Highway 23, 23 and Minnesota State Highway 65, 65 and is along the Snake River (St. Cro ...

, a city *

Mora, Missouri Mora is an unincorporated community in northern Benton County, Missouri Benton County is a county located in the west central part of the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 19,394 as of the 2020 Census. Its county seat is Warsaw. T ...

, an unincorporated community *

Mora County, New Mexico Mora County () is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, its population was 4,189. Its county seat is the census-designated place (CDP) Mora. The county has another CDP, Watrous, a village, Wagon Mound, and 12 sma ...

Mora, New Mexico Mora or is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mora County, New Mexico New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States o ...

, a census-designated place and the county seat **

Mora River Mora River, also known as Rio Mora, is a stream in Mora and San Miguel County, New Mexico. Its headwaters are on Osha Mountain of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The river flows downstream primarily through private land, but there are areas for ...

, partially in Mora County

Elsewhere

* Mora, Cordillera, Bolivia * Mora, Cameroon, a town *

Mora (canton) Mora is the seventh Cantons of Costa Rica, canton in the San José Province, San José province of Costa Rica. Its head city is Colón, Costa Rica, Colón. Toponymy Originally designated as Pacaca, a cacique name, the canton's name was changed t ...

, San José, Costa Rica *

Mora, Cyprus Mora (, ) is a village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus. History The village is de facto under the control of Northern Cyprus. Before the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 it was inhabited almost exclusively by Turkish Cypriots Turkish C ...

, a village * Mõra, Estonia, a village *

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. Occupation of the inhabitants is mostly fishing related, where in women mostly sell fish in Mumbai, Mora and ...

, India, a port serving the town of Uran *

Mora, Portugal Mora (), officially the Town of Mora (), is a town and 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 ...

, a municipality *

Mora, Spain Mora is a town and municipality in Toledo province, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The area is most famous for the abandoned ruins of the San Marcos de Yegros monastery of the Order of Santiago, located northeast of the ...

, a town and municipality in the province of Toledo *

Mora de Rubielos Mora de Rubielos is a municipality located in the mountainous area of the Iberian System, province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2009 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 1,756 inhabitants. Mora de Rubielos has a beaut ...

, a town in Aragón, Spain *

Morea Eyalet The Eyalet of the Morea () was a first-level province ('' eyalet'') of the Ottoman Empire, centred on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece. History From the Ottoman conquest to the 17th century The Ottoman Empire overran the Peloponne ...

(Ottoman Turkish: Eyālet-i Mōrâ), a former Ottoman Empire province in what is now Greece *

Mora (historical region) Mora ( Harari: ሞረ ''Morä'') ( Somali: ''Murrah'') also known as Mura was a historical Muslim state located in the Horn of Africa. It was positioned northward of Ifat within reach of Aussa city in modern Afar region The Afar Region (; ; ...

, East Africa *

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 sout ...

, an asteroid

Sports

Mora CF Mora Club de Fútbol is a football team based in Mora in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. Founded in 1977, it plays in the . Its stadium is '' Municipal Las Delicias'' with a capacity of 600 seats. History The history of footba ...

, a Spanish football team *

Mora IK Mora IK (or Mora Ishockeyklubb) is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Mora in northern Dalarna. After failing the 2019 SHL qualifiers, Mora has been relegated for play in the second-tier league, HockeyAllsvenskan. Mora has previously p ...

, an ice hockey club in Mora, Sweden *

IFK Mora IFK Mora is a sports club in Mora, Sweden. The club was founded on 22 August 1909, and became an alliance club on 1 January 1992, following a 1991 decision. IFK Mora is known for its successes in orienteering and cross-country skiing (sport), cro ...

, a sports club in Mora, Sweden *

IFK Mora Fotboll IFK Mora FK is a Swedish football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' ...

, a football club in Mora, Sweden

Warfare

Mora (military unit) A ''mora'' ( Greek: ,. plural ''morae'') was an ancient Spartan military unit of about a tenth of the Spartan army, at approx. 600 men by modern estimates, although Xenophon places it at 6,000. This can be reconciled by the nature of the Spartan a ...

, an ancient Spartan unit of about 600 soldiers *

First Battle of Mora The First Battle of Mora was part of the Taos Revolt of the Mexican–American War, between United States Army troops under Captain Israel R. Hendley, versus a militia of Hispanos (acting as Mexican nationals) and Puebloan allies in US-occ ...

, an 1847 battle of the Mexican–American War *

Second Battle of Mora The Second Battle of Mora was a February 1, 1847, military engagement during the Taos Revolt of the Mexican–American War in and around the village of Mora in US-occupied northern New Mexico. Seeking revenge for United States Army's January 24 ...

, an 1847 battle of the Mexican–American War

Other uses

* ''Mora'' (album), a 2011 album by Hungarian industrial nu metal band FreshFabrik * MORA (aviation), minimum off-route altitude * ''Mora'' (fish), a genus of fish in the family Moridae * ''Mora'' (plant), a genus of plants in the pea family ''Fabaceae'' *

Mora (linguistics) A mora (plural ''morae'' or ''moras''; often symbolized μ) is a smallest unit of timing, equal to or shorter than a syllable, that theoretically or perceptually exists in some spoken languages in which phonetic length (such as vowel length) mat ...

, a unit of sound ** ''

mōra ''On'' (音; rarely ''onji'') are the phonetic units in Japanese poetry. In the Japanese language, the word means "sound". It includes the phonetic units counted in haiku, tanka, and other such poetic forms. Known as "morae" to English-speaking ...

'', the modern Japanese equivalent *

Mora (music store) is an online music and video store for the Japanese market operated by Sony Music Solutions, a part of Sony Music Entertainment Japan (SMEJ). It is integrated into the Japanese version of Sony's Music Center for PC software, and was also integ ...

, a music download store by Sony *

Mora Banc Grup Banc Internacional d'Andorra - Banca Mora (BIBM or bibm) is the joint trading name of two Andorran banks, Banc Internacional d'Andorra and its wholly owned subsidiary Banca Mora. The two are known collectively as BIBM (styled bibm internally) or I ...

, joint name of two Andorran banks *

Mora (mythology) A mare (, ; Old Norse, Old High German and Swedish: ; ) is a malicious entity in Germanic and Slavic folklore that walks on people's chests while they sleep, bringing on nightmares. Bjorvand, Harald; and Lindeman, Fredrik Otto edd. (2000). ' ...

, in Slavic mythology * ''Mora'' (ship), the flagship of William the Conqueror *

Mora station Mora Station () is a station on the Busan Metro Line 2 in Mora-dong, Sasang District, Busan, South Korea. Not to be confused with Moran in Seoul. External links *Cyber station informationfrom Busan Transportation Corporation The Busan Transp ...

, Busan, South Korea, a railway station *

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, finally ...

, a type of 19th-century Swedish longcase clock *

Mora knife A mora knife () is a small sheath knife. It is a fixed blade knife, with or without a finger guard. The term originates from knives manufactured by the cutleries in Mora, Dalarna, Sweden. In Sweden and Finland, Mora knives are extensively us ...

, a type of knife made by various makers in Mora, Sweden *

Cyclone Mora Severe Cyclonic Storm Mora () was a moderate but deadly tropical cyclone that caused widespread devastation and severe flooding in Sri Lanka, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Northeast India in May 2017. The second named stor ...

, a tropical cyclone that affected Bangladesh in 2017