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Mara may refer to:
[edit] Social groups
- Mara people, in northeastern India and western Myanmar
- Mara language, a language spoken by Mara people
- Mara Salvatrucha, a violent criminal gang in Mexico, Central America, Canada, and the United States
- Maravar, a dominant caste in Tamil Nadu state in India
- Mara (Tagin), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh
[edit] People
[edit] Places
- Mara District, Cotabambas, Peru
- Mara, Tanzania, an administrative region of Tanzania
- Mara (SS), a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia
- Mara, South Africa, a small town in South Africa
- Mara River (Iza), a river in Romania
- Mara, a village in Deseşti Commune, Maramureş County, Romania
- Mara (torrent), a stream of Italy and Switzerland
- Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
- Masai Mara, a reserve in Kenya near the Mara River
- Mara, Spain, a municipality
[edit] Culture
- Mara (goddess), from Latvian mythology
- Mara (folklore), a specter or wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore
- Mara, also Marzanna, Murava, Morana, Moréna or Morena, in Slavic peoples mythology, the goddess of darkness, death, winter, the Moon and horror
- Mara (Hindu goddess), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology
- Mara (demon), a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation
- Sri Mara or Mara Varma, an honorific title of the Pandya kings of south India
- In Hindu mythology, a mantra told to Valmiki to chant
- Mara, an abbreviation of Mayura (Sanskrit word for peacock)
[edit] Fiction
- The Mara (Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
- in the Childe Cycle of Gordon R. Dickson, one of the two homeworlds of the Exotics
[edit] Organisations
[edit] See also
