Dura

Dura may refer to the following :

Geography

  • Dura language, a critically endangered language of Nepal
  • Dura, Africa, an Ancient city and former bishopric, now a Catholic titular see
  • Dura-Europos, an ancient city located in modern-day Syria, founded in 303 BCE and abandoned in 256–257 CE
  • Dora, Baghdad, alternately transliterated "al-Dura", a neighborhood in the Rasheed administrative district in Southern Baghdad, Iraq
  • Dura, Hebron, a Palestinian town in the southern West Bank located eleven kilometers southwest of Hebron in the Hebron Governorate
  • Dura al-Qar', a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate
  • Cișmigiu Gardens, originally named "Lake of Dura the merchant", a public park near the center of Bucharest, Romania that surrounds an artificial lake

Science

  • Dura mater, the outermost of the three ('hard', dura in Latin) layers of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord
  • Dura (moth), a genus of moths

Other

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