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Tarane Tarane () is a village located in the Miniyeh-Danniyeh District, in the North Governorate of Lebanon. It had 1,593 eligible voters in the 2009 elections. History In 1838, Eli Smith noted the village as ''Taran'', located in the Ed-Dunniyeh area. ...

, village in northern Lebanon * Taran, Bulgaria, a village in

Smolyan Smolyan () is a List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, town and ski resort in the south of Bulgaria near the border with Greece. It is the administrative and industrial centre of the Smolyan Province. The town is built along the narrow valley of t ...

municipality *

Taran, Iran (disambiguation) Taran () may refer to: * Taran, East Azerbaijan (طاران - ''Ţārān'') * Taran, Meyaneh (طاران - ''Ţārān''), East Azerbaijan Province * Taran, Ilam (ترن - ''Taran'') * Taran, Sistan and Baluchestan (طران - ''Ţarān'') { ...

, several places in Iran * Taran District, the name of a district of Kazakhstan; also, the capital of Taran District *

Taran Plateau Taran Plateau (, ‘Taransko Plato’ \t&-'r&n-sko 'pla-to\) is the ice-covered plateau of elevation 1100 to 1700 m Taran (name) Taran (also Țăran) is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Taran of the Picts, a 7th-century king of the Picts * Taran Adarsh (born 1965), Indian film critic * Taran Alvelo (born 1996), female Ameri ...

, includes people with the given name and surname

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* ''Taran'', Russian term for

aerial ramming Aerial ramming or air ramming is the ramming of one aircraft with another. It is a last-ditch tactic in air combat, sometimes used when all else has failed. Long before the invention of aircraft, ramming tactics in naval warfare and ground warfa ...

in wartime * A Welsh god, associated with the Gaulish

Taranis Taranis (sometimes Taranus or Tanarus) is a Celtic thunder god attested in literary and epigraphic sources. The Roman poet Lucan's epic ''Pharsalia'' mentions Taranis, Esus, and Teutates as gods to whom the Gauls sacrificed humans. This rare ...

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Rutilus heckelii ''Rutilus heckelii'' is a species of freshwater and brackish water ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. This species occurs in freshened areas of Black and Azov Seas, e ...

'' or ''taran'', a species of fish commonly known as roaches *

Taran (character) Taran is a fictional character from Lloyd Alexander's ''The Chronicles of Prydain'' series of novels. Serving as the series's central protagonist, he is first introduced as the assistant pig-keeper at Caer Dallben charged with the care of Hen We ...

, the main character in ''The Chronicles of Prydain'' books ** The character appears in Disney's adaptation, '' The Black Cauldron'' *

SU-152 "Taran" The Object 120 SU-152 "Taran" () was a fully enclosed Soviet tank destroyer built in 1965, which never progressed past the experimental stage. History In the early 1960s, the Soviet military concluded that the armor-piercing ammunition used by ...

, a 1965 experimental Russian tank destroyer

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