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Moria (Middle-earth) In the fictional history of the world by J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria, also named Khazad-dûm, is an ancient subterranean complex in Middle-earth, comprising a vast labyrinthine network of tunnels, chambers, mines, and halls under the Misty Mountain ...

, fictional location in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien * '' Moria: The Dwarven City'', a 1984 fantasy role-playing game supplement * ''Moria'' (1978 video game), a dungeon-crawler game * ''Moria'' (1983 video game), a computer game inspired by ''The Lord of the Rings''

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* Blanche Moria (1859–1926), French sculptor, educator and feminist *

Steve Moria Steve Moria (born February 3, 1961) is a British-Canadian ( dual nationality) professional ice hockey player. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Moria has won the IHJUK Player of the Year Trophy three times: in 1994–95, 20 ...

(born 1961), British-Canadian ice hockey player *

Moria Casán Ana María Casanova (born August 16, 1946), known by her stage name Moria Casán, is an Argentine actress and TV personality. Casán made her theatre debut in 1971 as a model in the show Nerón Vuelve in the theater El Nacional, and later became ...

(born 1946), Argentine actress

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Mória Mytilene (; ) is the capital city, capital of the Greece, Greek island of Lesbos, and its port. It is also the capital and administrative center of the North Aegean Region, and hosts the headquarters of the University of the Aegean. It was fo ...

(Μόρια), a small town in the modern municipal unit of Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece ** Moria refugee camp near Mytilene, Lesbos *

Moria, South Africa Moria is a town in Capricorn District Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa ...

Mōria Whirinaki is a locality on the Whirinaki River (Northland), Whirinaki River in the south Hokianga, in Northland Region, Northland, New Zealand. The name means "to lean against a support". New Zealand State Highway 12, Highway 12 runs through it ...

, a holy place in Whirinaki, Northland, New Zealand *

Moriah Moriah (Hebrew language, Hebrew: , ''Mōrīyya''; Arabic: ﻣﺮﻭﻩ, ''Marwah'') is the name given to a region in the Book of Genesis, where the binding of Isaac by Abraham is said to have taken place. Jews identify the region mentioned in G ...

, the name given to a mountainous region in the Book of Genesis

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Moria (tree) In ancient Greece, the moriai (plural of moria) were olive trees considered to be the property of the state because of their religious significance. Overview From ''Attic Orators'', vol. I. p. 289: Throughout Attica, besides the olives whi ...

(Μορια), a type of public olive tree in ancient Greece * Moria (nymph) (Μορια "olive tree", a nymph named in Greek mythology * ''Moria'', a Byzantine term for the intervals of the

72 equal temperament In music, 72 equal temperament, called twelfth-tone, 72 TET, 72 EDO, or 72 ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into twelfth-tones, or in other words 72 equal steps (equal frequency ratios). Each ste ...

music scale *

Moria (political party) Moria () was a short-lived one-man political party in Israel between 1990 and 1992. Background The party was established on 25 December 1990 during the 12th Knesset, when Minister of Immigrant Absorption and former Shas leader Yitzhak Peretz ...

, in Israel * Moria, the original description of

Witzelsucht Witzelsucht ( "joking addiction") is a set of rare neurological symptoms characterized by a tendency to make puns, or tell inappropriate jokes or pointless stories in socially inappropriate situations. It makes one unable to read sarcasm. A ...

, a set of rare neurological symptoms * ''Moria'' (dinoflagellate), a genus in the family

Peridiniaceae Peridiniaceae is a family of dinoflagellates belonging to the order Peridiniales. Genera Peridiniaceae contains the following genera: * '' Alterbia'' * '' Alterbidinium'' * '' Amphidiadema'' * '' Andalusiela'' * '' Apectodinium'' * '' Arch ...

* ''Moria'' (gastropod), a genus in the family

Amnicolidae Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea. This family is in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & ...

* Gekko Moria, a character in the anime/manga series ''

One Piece ''One Piece'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, as he explores the Grand Line in search of the myt ...

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