Saura may refer to:
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Saura (Hinduism)
Saura or Saurya () is a denomination of Hinduism whose adherents worship the Sun god Surya as the Saguna Brahman. In the contemporary period, the Sauras are a very small movement, much smaller than other larger denominations such as Vaishnavis ...
, a Hindu denomination
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Saura calendar
Saura is a term which refers to the solar days and months in Vedas, Vedic era and medieval Indian calendars, to differentiate them from lunar system in the lunisolar calendars.
Etymology
''Saura'' is a term found in Indian religions, and it con ...
, the Vedic and medieval Indian solar calendar
People
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Antonio Saura
Antonio Saura Atarés (September 22, 1930 – July 22, 1998) was a Spanish artist and writer, one of the major post-war painters to emerge in Spain in the fifties whose work has marked several generations of artists and whose critical voice is ...
, Spanish surrealist artist
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Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be among Spain's great filmmakers. He had a long and prolific career th ...
, Spanish film director
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Enrique Saura
Enrique Saura Gil (born 2 August 1954) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
In his career, he played mainly for Castellón and Valencia, appearing in more than 400 official games with the latter and winning th ...
, Spanish footballer
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Joan Saura
Joan Saura i Laporta is a Spanish former politician in Catalonia for Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV). He was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, in 1950. He studied at the Escola d'Enginyeria Tècnica (Technical Engineering School), where he ...
, Spanish politician
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Santiago Saura Martínez de Toda
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, ...
, Spanish engineer, professor and politician
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Saura Lightfoot Leon
Saura Lightfoot-Leon (born 1 January 1998) is a Dutch-born English-Spanish actress. For her debut feature film ''Hoard'' (2023), she received two British Independent Film Award nominations. She was named a 2024 ''Screen International'' Star of To ...
, Dutch-born English-Spanish actress
Places
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Saura, Nordland
Saura is a village in Nesna Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the southeastern side of the island of Handnesøya
Handnesøya is an island in Nesna Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The island lies between the is ...
, a village in Nesna, Norway
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Saura, Norway, a village in Gildeskål, Norway
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Saura Mountains
The Sauratown Mountains, which are sometimes called "the mountains away from the mountains", are an isolated mountain range located within Stokes and Surry counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The vast majority of the range is located ...
, mountains in North Carolina, USA
See also
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Cheraw
The Cheraw people, also known as the Saraw or Saura,Sebeok, Thomas Albert''Native Languages of the Americas, Volume 2.''Plenum Press, 1977: 251. were a Siouan-speaking tribe of Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands,Swanton''The Indians ...
people, a Native American tribe, also known as the Saraw or Saura, who lived in the Saura mountains
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Saura painting, a style of mural painting associated with Saura tribes of Odisha, India
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-saura, a taxonomic suffix commonly used for dinosaurs and other extinct reptiles.
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