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5 unusual facts about Amara


Amara, Nubia

Amara West was founded in the 19th Dynasty by Seti I and was probably, at least temporarily, an administrative center.

Mass graves in Iraq

The 1991 massacre of Iraqi Shia Muslims after the Shia uprising at the end of the Gulf war, in which tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in regions such as Basra, Karbala, Najaf, Nasiriya, Amara and Al-Hillah were killed.

Military of Vijayanagara

For this purpose, the empire was divided into Amaras (areas of revenue-producing land), that were granted to leaders called Nayakas.

Najem Wali

Born in Amara, Wali fled Iraq in 1980 after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War.

Todomondo

With the help of Jean Cheptea, composer, he participated to the Light Music Festival from Amara, followed by a tour at the seaside.


2nd Super Robot Wars Original Generation

It was developed in the Earth Cradle and piloted by the mysterious girl known as Amara (voiced by Haruna Ikezawa) and was designed to destroy the Huckebein series.

Amara Ahmed Ouattara

Amara Ahmed Ouattara (born October 21, 1983 in Bobo-Dioulasso) is a Burkinabé footballer who currently plays for AS Cherbourg in France, as a midfielder.

Amba Geshen

Another inaccurate account of Amba Geshen, called Mount Amara, was published in Purchas, His Pilgrimage, which Pakenham believes inspired John Milton's description of Paradise that appeared in Paradise Lost.

Battle of Hanna

After these defeats, the relief force (now reduced to around 10,000 men) was ordered once again to attempt to break through the Ottoman lines and continued its movement up the Tigris until it encountered 30,000 of the Ottoman Sixth Army, under the command of Khalil Pasha, at the Hanna defile, 30 miles downriver of Kut-al-Amara.

Despite two more relief attempts, the garrison at Kut-al-Amara was forced to surrender to the Ottoman forces on 29 April 1916 (see Siege of Kut).

Bengal Engineer Group

World War I: La Bassée 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, France and Flanders 1914–15, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1918, Aden, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Tigris 1916, Baghdad, Khan Baghdadi, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1915–18, Persia 1918, North West Frontier India 1915 '16–17, Baluchistan 1918;

Chokkadi High School Kukkujadka

Chokkadi High School is located in Kukkujadka which is Amara Mudnoor village, 12 km from Sullia, Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka, India.

Gautala Autramghat Sanctuary

Trees include teak (Tectona grandis), anjan (Hardwickia binata), oil cake tree (Albizia amara), sandalwood (Santalum album), bel (Aegle marmelos), awla (Phyllanthus emblica), bhallatak (Semecarpus anacardium), and moha (Madhuca longifolia).

George Stringer

During the effort to relieve the besieged garrison of British and Indian Army troops at Kut-el-Amara.

Greenough Family Massacre

According to the television series Crime Investigation Australia, a judge ruled that the exact way in which Daniel, Amara and Katrina were killed was to be sealed.

Kaivara

The ashram, the cave, Amara Narayanaswamy temple, Vaikunta (temple) by the side of the cave, and the hillock (on which Bheema is supposed to have killed the Bakasura) are all places worth visiting.

Matthew Restall

His books include The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850 (1997), Maya Conquistador (1998), Invading Guatemala (with Florine Asselbergs, 2007), 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse (with Amara Solari, 2011), Latin America in Colonial Times (with Kris Lane, 2011), and The Conquistadors (with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, 2012).

Naonori Kohira

Kohira and Paul Saffo, who was then a Roy Amara fellow at Institute for the Future, traveled together in Japan and the US, thinking about how they should tell about the tragedies caused by the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the world in the next 100 years.

National Pupils and Students Union of Côte d'Ivoire

There were three candidates for the presidency: Tiémoko, Amara Karamoko (president of the unit of University of Abidjan) and Laurent Gbagbo.

Ömerli, Halfeti

Ömerli, formerly known as Amara, is a village in Halfeti, Şanlıurfa Province, southeastern Turkey.

Roy Amara

"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.", which was paraphrased by Robert X. Cringely, and is sometimes known as Amara's Law.


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