Dora

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Contents 1 People 2 Space 3 Music 3.1 Songs about Dora 4 War history 5 Geographic locations 6 Engineering 7 Popular media 8 Other 9 See also

Dora is a female name of Greek origin, derived from Dorothea or Theodora, meaning "God's Gift". Dora may refer to:

[edit] People

• Dora Anastasiou, Cypriot Miss World delegate
• Dora Bakoyannis, Greek politician

[edit] Space

• Asteroid 668 Dora

[edit] Music

• HRT Dora, pop festival and the Croatian national preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest

[edit] Songs about Dora

• Dora by Ambitious Lovers from the album Envy

[edit] War history

• Mittelbau-Dora, World War II concentration camp
• Fw 190 D "Dora", a model of Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft
• Dora (artillery), 80cm railway artillery pieces constructed by the Krupp company for Nazi Germany during World War II;
• DORA 1 and DORA 2, U-boat bunkers in Trondheim, Norway
• DORA, the Defence of the Realm Act 1914, passed in Britain in August 1914
• MV Dora, a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker

[edit] Geographic locations

Australia

• Lake Dora (Tasmania)
• Lake Dora (Western Australia)

Cyprus

• Dora, Cyprus

Iraq

• Dora, Baghdad, a major neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq

Italy

Two rivers, tributaries of the Po River, from the Celtic "duria", meaning water:

• Dora Baltea
• Dora Riparia

Lebanon

• Dora, Lebanon, a suburb of Beirut

United States

• Dora, Alabama
• Dora, Arkansas
• Dora, Missouri
• Dora, New Mexico

[edit] Engineering

• The EV-DO Revision A standard, abbreviated DOrA

[edit] Popular media

• Dora the Explorer, a television program aimed at young children airing on Nick Jr.
• Doraemon, a Japanese anime and manga
• Dora Bianchi, a fictional character in the webcomic Questionable Content

[edit] Other

• Hurricane Dora, a 1964 hurricane, the first and last to hit Jacksonville, Florida
• The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Canadian professional theatre
• Dora, a minor character in the webcomic Erfworld
• Psychology case Dora of Sigmund Freud's case studies A Case of Hysteria. The case is commonly referred to as Dora and the real name of the subject was Ida Bauer.
• DORA is also the name of a silver jubli oriya film.

[edit] See also

• Doralice, a female first name

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