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Tarma

Tarma is a city in the central Peruvian Andes, capital of Tarma Province in Junín, Peru, about 230 kilometers east of Lima at an altitude of 3,050 meters.

Tarmashirin

Tarmashirin, also known as Ala al-Din Muhammad, was a khan of the Chaghadayid Khanate who converted to Islam and was deposed and killed in 1334.

Tärnasjön

Tärnasjön (Lake Tärna), Ramsar Site no. 29 in Västerbotten, Sweden, designated 5 December 1974; a 23,236 ha alpine lake on the upper Umeälven with the southernmost palsa mires in Sweden.

Tarnee White

Tarnee White (Tarnee Renee White-Southwell), Australian breaststroke swimmer born 1981 in Redcliffe, Queensland; Olympic silver 2000 and gold 2008 in the 4x100 m medley relay as a heat swimmer.

Tarnogród Confederation

The Tarnogród Confederation (konfederacja tarnogrodzka) was a general confederation of Polish-Lithuanian nobles formed in 1715 against Saxon troops and Augustus II, ending with the 1717 Silent Sejm.

Tarnopol Voivodeship

Tarnopol Voivodeship (województwo tarnopolskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland, carved from former Austrian Galicia in 1921, with its capital at Tarnopol, today Ternopil in Ukraine.

Tarnovo Artistic School

The Tarnovo Artistic School (Търновска художествена школа) was the medieval Bulgarian school of painting and church art centered in Tarnovo, active mainly in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Tarnovo Constitution

The Tarnovo Constitution (Търновска конституция) was the first constitution of the Principality of Bulgaria, adopted on 16 April 1879 in Veliko Tarnovo. It established a hereditary constitutional monarchy and remained Bulgaria's fundamental law until 1947.

Tarnovo Literary School

The Tarnovo Literary School (Търновска книжовна школа) was a medieval Bulgarian literary school centered in Veliko Tarnovo, flowering in the late 14th century under Patriarch Euthymius.

Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System

Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (2017) in Upper Silesia, Poland: historic Friedrichsgrube mine with over 50 km of main drainage tunnels, gravity adit drainage, and a water supply still serving the town.

Taro

Taro (Colocasia esculenta), also cocoyam or kalo, is an Araceae corm crop domesticated in India, Southeast Asia, and possibly New Guinea, spread across the Pacific and Africa, with 18.21 Mt produced in 2024, led by Nigeria.

Tarō Asō (麻生太郎)

Tarō Asō (麻生太郎, born 1940) is a Japanese LDP politician, 92nd Prime Minister (2008–09), long-serving Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister (2012–21), grandson of Yoshida Shigeru, and LDP vice president under Takaichi Sanae.

Taro Daniel

Taro Daniel (ダニエル太郎), Japanese tennis pro born 1993 in New York; career-high ATP No. 58 (2024), 2018 Istanbul clay title, and qualifier wins over Djokovic, Murray, and Ruud.

Taro Hakase

Taro Hakase (葉加瀬太郎) is a Japanese violinist and composer born in Osaka Prefecture in 1968, first known with the trio KRYZLER&KOMPANY and famous for the Jounetsu Tairiku theme.

Taro Hornmark

Taro Hornmark, full name Erik Taro Hornmark, is a Hong Kong-based hedge fund executive who leads the Asia-Pacific business of quantitative investment firm Qube Research & Technologies.

Taro leaf blight

Taro leaf blight, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora colocasiae, is the most severe disease of taro, causing 25–90% yield losses; it reached Samoa in 1993 and West Africa in 2009 and is managed mainly with resistant varieties.

Tarō Matsuno

Tarō Matsuno (松野太郎) was a Japanese meteorologist whose 1966 theory of equatorial waves laid the foundation for tropical meteorology, from El Niño to the quasi-biennial oscillation.

Taro Sakamoto

Taro Sakamoto (坂本太郎) is the protagonist of Yuto Suzuki's manga Sakamoto Days: once the world's greatest hitman, he retired after marrying Aoi, gained weight, and runs a convenience store, defending his family under a no-killing rule when a $1 billion bounty draws him back.

Tarocchi bolognesi

Tarocchi bolognesi (Tarocchino Bolognese, Tarocco Bolognese): Bologna's 62-card tarot pack, shortened around the mid-1500s by removing suit cards 2-5, and its main game Ottocento, a four-player partnership point-trick game to 800 points.

Taroh Kinoshita

Taroh Kinoshita is a Japanese biochemist and cell biologist at Osaka University. He identified 25 genes in the GPI pathway, linking it to PNH and earning a 2025 NAS election.

Tarok (Dantarok)

Tarok (Dantarok, Danish Tarok, Grosstarok) is Denmark's three-player 78-card tarot trick-taking game, the last surviving Grosstarock, with no bidding and scoring centered on winning the last trick with a king or the pagat (Ultimo).

Tarok (Romtarok)

Tarok (Romtarok), Romanian Tarok, is a four-player Romanian point-trick tarot game from Suceava, using a 54-card Austrian pack, king-calling partnerships, staged talon draws, and bonuses such as pagat ultimo.

Tarok (Sltarok)

Tarok is the Slovenian tarot-family card game, a 54-card point-trick game with bidding related to Austrian Königrufen; declarers need 36 of 70 card points, with contracts scored 10 to 500 and play governed by Tarok zveza Slovenije.

Taroko National Park (太鲁阁国家公园)

Taroko National Park (太魯閣國家公園), Taiwan national park established November 28, 1986; 92,000 hectares across Hualien, Taichung, Nantou; marble Taroko Gorge carved by the Liwu River; largely closed and phased-reopening after the April 3, 2024 earthquake.

TAROM

TAROM, also known as Transporturi Aeriene Române, is Romania's state-owned flag carrier, founded in 1954 and flying from its Bucharest hub as a SkyTeam member since 2010.

Taron Dickens

Taron Tyger Dickens, American college football quarterback from Miami; FCS record-setter at Western Carolina (46 straight completions, 38 TD passes, 2025 Walter Payton runner-up), then transferred to Northern Illinois in 2026.

Taron Egerton

Taron Egerton, Welsh actor (born 1989, Birkenhead), RADA graduate; known as Eggsy in Kingsman, Golden Globe-winning Elton John in Rocketman, and leads in Black Bird, Smoke, Carry-On, and Apex.

Tarong power station

Tarong power station is a coal-fired power station in southern Queensland, Australia, 45 km south-east of Kingaroy, with four 350 MW units supplying about 20 percent of Queensland's electricity.

Tarot

Tarot, also known as tarot cards, is a 78-card deck invented in fifteenth-century Italy as a card game and later adopted for fortune-telling and self-reflection.

Tarot (2024 American film)

Tarot (2024) is an American supernatural horror film, formerly titled Horrorscope, directed by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg for Screen Gems. Friends using another person's tarot deck are killed per their readings; it grossed $49 million on an $8 million budget.