Mark

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Mark may refer to:

Mark

• Gospel of Mark, one of the books of the Bible in the New Testament
• Mark the Evangelist (Saint Mark, died 68 AD), traditional author of this Gospel
• John Mark, a New Testament figure usually identified with the Evangelist
• Pope Mark (died 336), short-lived pope who reigned during the year 336
• Mark a slave executed near Boston in 1755.

Currency

• Mark (currency), a unit of currency in various countries
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • East German mark, official currency of the German Democratic Republic from 1948 to 1990
  • England and Scotland, a unit of account in medieval and early modern times
  • Estonian mark, Estonian currency from 1919 to 1928
  • Finnish markka, mark in Swedish, official currency of Finland from 1860 to 2001
  • German gold mark, coinage of the German Empire from 1873 to 1914
  • German mark, official currency of Germany from 1948 to 2001
  • German Papiermark, German coinage from 1914 to 1923
  • German Reichsmark, German coinage from 1924 to 1948
  • Polish marka, Polish currency from 1917 to 1924
  • Rentenmark, German temporary currency 1923 to 1924

Places

• Mark, Illinois, a village in the United States
• Mark, Missouri, a ghost town in the United States
• Mark, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
• Mark, Somerset, a village in Somerset, England
• Mark (Dender), a river in Belgium, tributary of the Dender
• Mark (Dintel) a river in Belgium and the Netherlands, also known as the Dintel
• Mark (territory), the border territory of a country
• Brandenburg, a federal state in Northeast Germany, often colloquially called die Mark
• Baruth/Mark, a village in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brandenburg, Germany
• County of Mark, a county of the Holy Roman Empire
• Mark Hundred, in Sweden
• Mark Municipality, in Sweden

Measurement

• Mark (unit), an archaic European unit of weight whose use for precious metal gave rise to the currencies
• Part of grading students' work

Sports

• Mark (association football), a type of defensive strategy
• Mark (Australian football), a skill where a player cleanly catches a kicked ball
• Mark (professional wrestling), a fan who does not believe that professional wrestling is staged
• Mark (rugby), play in which a player may catch the ball and take a free-kick at the position of the mark

Technology

• Mark (designation), a method of designating a version of a product
• Harvard Mark I, the first large-scale automatic digital computer in the USA
• Mark frequency, extreme discrete value of frequency-shift keying
• <mark> – HTML tag used to highlight text

People

• Mark (name), a male given name
• Mark (surname), notable people with the surname or family name

Other uses

• March (territorial entity), also known as mark, a borderland medieval European administrative entity
• Mark of Cornwall, a figure from Arthurian legend
• Mark (dinghy), a single-hander class of small sailing dinghy
• The intended target of a confidence trick

See also

• All pages beginning with Mark
• All pages with a title containing Mark
• The Mark (disambiguation)
• Marks (disambiguation)
• St. Mark's (disambiguation)
• Marque (disambiguation)
• Marker (disambiguation)
• Marc (disambiguation)