Tara

Tara, tara or TARA may refer to

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, 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:

• Tara Shire Council, 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

People

• Tara (name), see for a list of people with the name
• Tara (actress), from the Assamese film industry
• Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, English socialite
• Baron Tara, Irish title
• Viscount Tara, Irish title
• tara skwarol, Pretty & smart

Deities

• Tara (Buddhism), a female deity representing enlightened activity and fearlessness
• Tara (Polynesian goddess), a beautiful 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.

Companies and organizations

• Tara Energy, electricity company in Texas, USA
• Tara expedition, Arctic voyage 2006-8
• Tara Foundation, charity for transgendered people
• Tara (Israel), dairy co-operative
• Tara Labs, manufacturer of high-end audio products
• Tara Newz, Bengali news channel
• Tara (Northern Ireland), loyalist group

Fiction

Characters:

• Tara King, one of The Avengers (TV series)
• Tara of Helium, a fictional character appearing in the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Tara Fremont, or called "Tara, the Jungle Girl" and "Too Tall Tara", a fictional character appearing in AC Comics
• Tara Maclay, a character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Tara (comics), gynoid member of the New Invaders
• Tara, a sword and sorcery heroine appearing in DC Comics' Warlord series
• Tara Mehta, from the Devi comic book by Virgin Comics.
• Tara (Kim Possible), a cheerleader in Kim Possible

Other:

• Tara (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
• Tara (2001 film), an American film known in the USA as Hood Rat, directed by Leslie Small and starring Isaiah Washington and Ice T
• Tara Plantation, fictional home of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
• "The Androids of Tara", a Doctor Who serial (in which Tara is the name of a planet)
• Tara Road, novel by Irish writer Maeve Binchy

Science

• Tara (spider), 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.
• Tara (monkey), appeared in several films
• Battle of Tara, in Ireland in 980

See also

• Taras