Agora (disambiguation)
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Places

  • Ancient Agora of Athens
    Ancient Agora of Athens
    The Ancient Agora of Athens is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis and is bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill known as the Colonus Agoraeus.-History:The agora in Athens had private housing, until it...

  • Agora (Thrace)
    Agora (Thrace)
    Agora was an ancient town situated about the middle of the narrow neck of the Thracian Chersonese , and not far from Cardia, in what is now European Turkey. Xerxes, when invading Greece in 480 BC, passed through it.-References:*Smith, William ; , , London,...

    , an ancient Greek town on the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey
  • Agora Center
    Agora Center
    The Agora Center is a separate institute at the University of Jyväskylä in Central Finland. By its nature, the Agora Center is interdisciplinary and networked. Its purpose is to conduct, coordinate, and administrate top-level research and development that relates to the knowledge society and which...

    , located in Jyväskylä, Finland
  • Agora Theatre and Ballroom
    Agora Theatre and Ballroom
    The Agora Theatre and Ballroom is a concert club located in Cleveland, Ohio. The Agora name was previously used by two other Cleveland venues in succession, the latter of which was destroyed by fire in 1984...

    , concert club in Cleveland, Ohio, United States
  • Agora (Valencia)
    Agora (Valencia)
    The Agora is a multifunctional covered space designed by Santiago Calatrava located in the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències complex, Valencia, Spain. The building has a height of 80 metres and occupies 5,000 square metres of elliptic space...

    , a multifunctional building in Valencia, Spain
  • Agoura, California
    Agoura, California
    Agoura is an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, which is located southeast of the city of Agoura Hills, California, adjacent to the city of Calabasas in Los Angeles County. Agoura was the historical name of the area, before much of the area was developed and before the incorporation of the...

    , in Los Angeles County

Arts

  • Agora (sculpture)
    Agora (sculpture)
    Agora is the name of a group of 106 headless and armless iron sculptures at the south end of Grant Park in Chicago. Designed by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, they were made in a foundry near Poznan between 2004 and 2006. In 2006, the Chicago Park District brought the work to Chicago as a...

    , an art installation by Magdalena Abakanowicz in Chicago's Grant Park
  • Circus Agora
    Circus Agora
    Circus Agora is one of five travelling circuses in Norway. It was started in 1989 by Jan Kjetil Smørdal, who still serves as the director of the circus....

    , a Norwegian travelling circus
  • Agora (film)
    Agora (film)
    Agora is a 2009 Spanish historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil. The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, a female mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in 4th century Roman Egypt who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system...

    , a 2009 historical movie about Hypatia of Alexandria

Computing

  • Agora (programming language) in computer science
  • Agora
    Agora (web browser)
    Agora was a World Wide Web email browser and was a proof of concept to help people to use the full internet. Agora was an email-based web browser designed for non-graphic terminals and to help people without full access to the internet such as in developing countries or without a permanent internet...

     a proof of concept World Wide Web
    World Wide Web
    The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

     email
    Email
    Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...

     browser
    Web browser
    A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

    developed in 1994-1997.

Economics

  • Israeli agora
    Israeli agora
    The agora is a denomination of the currency of Israel. The Israeli currency - the new Israeli shekel is divided into 100 agorot.The name agora actually refers to three kinds of currencies that were used in Israel throughout its history, all of them have been subdivisions of the main currency...

    , a unit of currency
  • Agorism
    Agorism
    Agorism is a political philosophy founded by Samuel Edward Konkin III and developed with contributions by J. Neil Schulman that holds as its ultimate goal bringing about a society in which all "relations between people are voluntary exchanges – a free market." The term comes from the Greek...

    , a libertarian political philosophy

Companies

  • Agora Inc.
    Agora Inc.
    Agora Inc. is a Maryland corporation based in Baltimore, which as of 2003, publishes books, magazines, newsletters and operates at least fifteen financial web sites in the United States and Europe...

    , a Maryland corporation which publishes books, magazines, newsletters and financial web sites
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