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- Vara ParishVara Parish-Settlements:Villages:Alajõe - Ätte - Kargaja - Kauda - Keressaare - Koosa - Koosalaane - Kusma - Kuusiku - Matjama - Meoma - Metsakivi - Mustametsa - Papiaru - Pilpaküla - Põdra - Põldmaa - Põrgu - Praaga - Rehemetsa - Särgla - Selgise - Sookalduse - Tähemaa - Undi - Välgi - Vanaussaia -...
, municipality in Tartu County, Estonia - Vara, Estonia, village in Vara Parish, Tartu County, Estonia
- Vara MunicipalityVara MunicipalityVara Municipality is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Vara.The present municipality consists of 25 original local government entities . Between 1974 and 1982 the territory of present Essunga Municipality was also included.-External...
, a municipality in western Sweden - Vara, SwedenVara, SwedenVara is a locality and the seat of Vara Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 3,779 inhabitants in 2005.- References :...
, a town in Sweden - Vara (river), in Liguria, Italy
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- Omroepvereniging VARA, Vereeniging van Arbeiders Radio Amateurs, a public broadcasting organisation in the Netherlands
- Visual Artists Rights ActVisual Artists Rights ActThe Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 , , is a United States law protecting artist rights.VARA was the first federal copyright legislation to grant protection to moral rights...
, a law in the United States that protects artists' moral rights to attribution and the integrity of their work - Vara, a seldom used Spanish and Portuguese unit of length
- Portuguese customary unitsPortuguese customary unitsThe Portuguese customary units were used in Portugal, Brazil and other parts of the Portuguese Empire until the adoption of the Metric System in the 19th century.The Metric System was adopted by Portugal and Portuguese colonies in 1852 and by Brazil in 1862....
- Spanish customary units
- Portuguese customary units
- Vara (Greyhawk), a fictional deity in the Dungeons & DragonsDungeons & DragonsDungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
roleplaying game - Shailesh Vara, a British Conservative Party politician
- The Vara fortress, a former German sea fortress in KristiansandKristiansand-History:As indicated by archeological findings in the city, the Kristiansand area has been settled at least since 400 AD. A royal farm is known to have been situated on Oddernes as early as 800, and the first church was built around 1040...
, NorwayNorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. - Varus deformityVarus deformityIn orthopedics, a varus deformity is a term for the inward angulation of the distal segment of a bone or joint. The opposite of varus is called valgus.The terms varus and valgus always refer to the direction that the distal segment of the joint points....
, as in "tibia vara" - Vara (SanskritSanskritSanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
),A bridegroom (usually shortened to groom) is a man who is about to be married, or who has just been married.