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Mara Bizzotto
Mara Bizzotto is an Italian politician of Lega who serves as Undersecretary of State for Enterprises and Made in Italy in the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Mara Branković (Мара Бранковић)
Mara Branković (Мара Бранковић), also Mara Despina or Mara Hatun, Serbian princess, daughter of Đurađ Branković, wife of Sultan Murad II and stepmother of Mehmed II; Christian mediator, patron of Hilandar, and holder of the Ezova fief.
Mara Brock Akil
Mara Brock Akil, also known as Mara Brock, is an American television writer, producer, and showrunner, born in 1970, best known as the creator of Girlfriends and The Game.
Mara Corday
Mara Corday (born Marilyn Joan Watts, 1930–2025) was an American showgirl, model, and actress who co-starred in the 1950s monster films Tarantula, The Black Scorpion, and The Giant Claw.
Mara family
Mara family, New York Giants founding owners since Tim Mara bought the NFL franchise for $500 in 1925; Jack and Wellington Mara succeeded him, 50% sold to the Tisch family in 1991, John Mara now president and CEO.
Mara Jade
Mara Jade, Timothy Zahn's Star Wars character from Heir to the Empire (1991), is the Emperor's Hand assassin ordered to kill Luke Skywalker who later became his wife and a Jedi; she remains Legends-only, excluded from canon.
Mara Lawniczak
Mara Lawniczak is an evolutionary geneticist and Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, known for the Malaria Cell Atlas, the Ag1000G mosquito genomics project, and Souporcell.
Mara Navarria
Mara Navarria (born 1985, Udine) is an Italian épée fencer, 2018 individual world champion, with Olympic team gold at Paris 2024 and team bronze at Tokyo 2020.
Mara Prentiss
Mara Prentiss, born 1959, is an American experimental physicist and Harvard professor known for creating atom lithography, which uses light to pattern atoms into features tens of nanometers wide.
Mara Region
Mara Region (Mkoa wa Mara) is a Tanzanian region on Lake Victoria. Its capital is Musoma, and it is home to the Serengeti National Park.
Mara Takla Haymanot
Mara Takla Haymanot (ማራ ተክለ ሃይማኖት) was the first king of the Zagwe dynasty of Ethiopia, founded around 1137 after he defeated the last Aksumite king, Dil Na'od, and married his daughter.
Mara Wilson
Mara Wilson, born 1987 in Los Angeles, is an American writer and voice actor who was a 1990s child star in Mrs. Doubtfire, Miracle on 34th Street, and Matilda, left acting at 13, and wrote Where Am I Now? (2016).
Māra Zālīte
Māra Zālīte, born 1952 in Siberia to a family deported by the Soviet regime, is a Latvian poet, playwright, and novelist whose rock opera Lāčplēsis premiered in 1988 during the Atmoda independence period.
Marabá
Marabá (PA) is a Pará, Brazil municipality at the Itacaiúnas-Tocantins confluence, founded 1913, also called Burgo Agrícola do Itacaiunas origin; 266,533 people (2022), pig-iron and mining economy, five urban nuclei.
Marabou stork
Marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer, also crumeniferus), a large scavenging African stork of the adjutant genus Leptoptilos; up to 1.5 m tall, 9 kg, IUCN Least Concern globally but Near Threatened regionally in South Africa.
Maraboutism
Maraboutism (المرابطية) is the veneration of saintly figures, living and dead, that became central to rural Islam in the Maghreb from the 11th century onward.
Maracaibo
Maracaibo, capital of Zulia state and Venezuela's second-largest city, a lakefront oil port founded as Nueva Zamora in 1574, crossed by the 8.7 km General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge (1962), marked by informal barrios and Lake Maracaibo pollution.
Maracanã Stadium
Maracanã Stadium (Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; built for the 1950 World Cup, once the world's largest stadium with ~200,000 at the Maracanazo final; renovated 2010-2013 for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
Maracanaú
Maracanaú (Ceará, Brazil): municipality in the Fortaleza Metropolitan Region, emancipated 6 March 1983. Largest industrial hub and second largest economy of Ceará; 234,509 residents (2022 census); served by Metrofor's Linha Sul.
Maracay
Maracay (San José de Maracay), capital of Aragua state, Venezuela, in the Lake Valencia depression at 436 m. Founded as a parish in 1701; industrialized under dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, 1912–1928.
Marad
Marad, identified with Tell as-Sadoum in modern Iraq, was a Sumerian city of southern Mesopotamia, the seat of the god Lugal-Marada, attested from the 3rd millennium BC.
Maradi (city)
Maradi, capital of Maradi Region in south-central Niger, is the country's third largest city and commercial capital, a Hausa border city founded in the early 19th century, rebuilt on a grid after the 1945 flood, and living from trade with Nigeria.
Maradi (district)
Maradi region, one of Niger's eight administrative regions in the south-central country, capital the city of Maradi. 41,796 km², 8 departments, 5.25 million projected inhabitants (2024), agriculture 77% of regional GDP, border with Nigeria.
Maradona: Blessed Dream
Maradona: Blessed Dream (Maradona: Sueño bendito) is a 2021 Amazon Prime Video biographical miniseries, 10 episodes, created by Alejandro Aimetta, dramatizing Diego Maradona's life from Villa Fiorito to the 1986 World Cup, criticized for historical errors such as Perón's death date.
Marae
A marae is a communal and sacred ground that serves as the focal point of Māori community life in New Zealand, and a formal ritual space across Polynesia.
MARAFIQ Independent Water and power plant
The MARAFIQ Independent Water and Power Plant is a gas-fired cogeneration plant in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, producing about 2,750 MW and 800,000 m³ of desalinated water daily.
Maragadha Naanayam (மரகத நாணயம்)
Maragadha Naanayam (மரகத நாணயம்) is a 2017 Tamil fantasy comedy film directed by ARK Saravan, starring Aadhi and Nikki Galrani, about a cursed emerald coin; Telugu title Marakathamani; sequel shot 2026.
Maragha Observatory
The Maragha Observatory (رصدخانه مراغه) was a Mongol-era astronomical research institute at Maragha in northwestern Iran, founded in 1259 by Hulegu Khan for the scholar Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.
Marāgheh, East Azerbaijan
Marāgheh (مراغه) is a city in East Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran, home to the 1259 Maragheh Observatory of Nasir al-Din Tusi; census 2020 population 175,600, Sufi Chai river, agricultural economy.
Marāgheh, Razavi Khorasan
Marāgheh (مراغه), a populated place in Razavi Khorasan province, northeastern Iran, at 35.83°N 59.63°E; population 262,604. Cold semi-arid (BSk) climate, 11.1 °C mean, 301 mm rain, +2.2 °C warming since 1940. Distinct from Maragheh, East Azerbaijan.