Taras
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Taras may mean:
  • Taras, ancient city of Magna Graecia, modern Taranto
    Taranto
    Taranto is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto and is an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base....

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  • Taraš
    Taraš
    Taraš is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...

    , a village in Vojvodina, Serbia.
  • Taras (mythology)
    Taras (mythology)
    Taras was, according to Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon and of the nymph Satyrion.Taras is the eponymous founder of the Greek colony of Taras , in Magna Graecia...

    , the son of Poseidon and of the nymph Satyrion.
  • Taras (name)
    Taras (name)
    Taras is a male Eastern European name, used particularly in Ukraine. It is probably derived from Taras, son of the god Poseidon.The endemic spread of the name in that country is explained by its association with Taras Shevchenko, a national poet and unifying figure for the Ukrainian nation...

    , an Eastern European male given name, used particularly in Ukraine.
  • Jamie Taras
    Jamie Taras
    Jamie Taras is a former professional Canadian football player with the Canadian Football League British Columbia Lions, and current Director of Community Relations with the BC Lions...

    , Canadian football player
  • John Taras
    John Taras
    John Taras was a prominent American balletmaster and choreographer. Born on the Lower East Side of New York City to Ukrainian parents, he was sent at age 16 to study ballet with Michel Fokine, Anatole Vilzak and Ludmila Shollar, and later to the School of American Ballet...

    , balletmaster and choreographer
  • Martin Taras
    Martin Taras
    Martin B. Taras was an American cartoonist who mostly tenured at Famous Studios, the New York-based animation division of Paramount Pictures....

    , American cartoonist
  • Taras Mychalewych
    Taras Mychalewych
    -Life and art:Taras Mychalewych was born in Munich, Germany, at the end of World War II. His family emigrated to the United States in 1949 and settled in St. Paul, Minnesota. Taras attended the School of Applied Arts in St. Paul and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in...

    , Ukrainian artist
  • Taras Shevchenko
    Taras Shevchenko
    Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...

    , Ukrainian poet and artist

See also

  • Taras Bulba (disambiguation)
    Taras Bulba (disambiguation)
    Taras Bulba is a historical novel by Russian-Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol.Taras Bulba may also refer to:*Taras Bulba , by Mykola Lysenko*Taras Bulba based on the Gogol novel*Taras Bulba , based on the Gogol novel...

  • Tara (disambiguation)
  • Taras, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
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