Tara

Tara, tara or TARA may refer to

People

*Tara (name), a list of people with the name
*Tara (actress), from the Assamese film industry

Titles

*Baron Tara, Irish title
*Viscount Tara, Irish title

Places

Natural features

*Hill of Tara, home of the ancient High Kings of Ireland
*Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland
*Tara Mountain and Tara National Park in Serbia
*Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
*Tara River, name of several rivers
*Salar de Tara, salt pan in Chile

Towns

*Tara, Afghanistan
*Tara, Nepal
*Tara, Queensland, town in Australia
*Tara, Ontario, village in Canada
*Tara, Ethiopia, a village in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
*Tara, Russia, town in Omsk Oblast, Russia
*Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
*Tara Township, Minnesota, USA; several places
*Tara Hills, California, USA

Other

*Shire of Tara, Queensland, Australia
*Tara County, New South Wales, Australia
*Tara Station in Saga Prefecture, Japan
*Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland
*Tara Boulevard, modern name of U.S. Route 19 and U.S. Route 41 through Jonesboro, where the Tara Plantation was located
*Tara, home of Keith Moon
*Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
*Tara Field, airport in Clayton County, Georgia, USA

Companies and organizations

*Tara Energy, electricity company in Texas, USA
*Tara expedition, Arctic voyage 2006-8
*Tara Foundation, charity for transgendered people
*Tara Foundation (Ireland), an Irish cultural heritage lobby group
*Tara (Israel), dairy co-operative
*Tara Labs, manufacturer of high-end audio products
*Tara Newz, Bengali news channel
*Tara (Northern Ireland), loyalist group
*TARA Industrial Packaging Corp., packaging company based in Florida

Fiction

Comics

*Tara, a sword and sorcery heroine appearing in DC Comics' "Warlord" (comics)
*Tara (comics), an android character in Marvel Comics' "New Invaders"
*Tara Fremont, also called "Tara, the Jungle Girl" and "Too Tall Tara", a superhero character appearing in AC Comics
*Tara Mehta, an incarnate deity character in Virgin Comics' "Devi" comic book

Novels

*Tara of Helium, a princess character in the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
*Tara (Artemis Fowl), a fictional location in the "Artemis Fowl" series
*"Tara Road", novel by Irish writer Maeve Binchy

Movies and television

*"Tara" (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
*"Tara" (2001 film), an American film, also known as "Hood Rat", directed by Leslie Small, starring Isaiah Washington and Ice T
*TARA, acronym for the The Amazing Race Asia, a reality game show on the AXN network.

Characters

*Tara (Kim Possible), a cheerleader character in the "Kim Possible"
*Tara King, a leading character in "The Avengers"
*Tara Maclay, a character in the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

ettings

*Tara, a planet setting of the "Doctor Who" serial "The Androids of Tara"
*Tara Plantation, fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind"

Religion

*Tara (Buddhism), a female deity representing enlightened activity and fearlessness
*Tara (Polynesian goddess), a sea goddess
*In Hinduism::*Tara (Devi), a Mahavidya of Mahadevi, Kali or Parvati. :*Another name for Taraka, the second wife of Brihaspati:*Tara (Ramayana), the wife of the monkey king Vali, who married Vali's brother and successor, Sugriva, after Vali's death.

cience

*Tara (genus), a genus of jumping spiders
*tara tree in Peru
*TARA, acronym for the Timed Antagonistic Response Alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique.
*Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T (mtDNA)

Other

*"Tara" (album), fourth album by black metal band Absu.
*Tara Brooch, an artifact from Ireland
*tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
*Hurricane Tara, name of three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
*Battle of Tara, in Ireland in 980
*An alternative form of the colloquial Ta-ta meaning goodbye
* Tara means "Bridal Veil" in Kurdish Language.

ee also

*Taras