Dura
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Dura may refer to:
- Dura (town), a Palestinian town in the southern West Bank located eleven kilometers southwest of Hebron in the Hebron Governorate
- Dura language, a critically endangered language of Nepal
- Dura Automotive SystemsDura Automotive SystemsDura Automotive Systems, headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA was ranked in the 2006 Fortune 1000. It is engaged in the business of manufacturing and distribution of automotive components....
, an American automotive company headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan and specializing in automobile components - Dura Convertible SystemsDura Convertible SystemsDura Convertible Systems was an automobile supplier specializing in convertible tops. It is a unit of Collins & Aikman Corp. Dura had supplied convertible tops to Chrysler since 1982's introduction of the Chrysler LeBaron convertible. It had also supplied the Chevrolet Corvette's top for many...
, an American automotive company headquartered in Adrian, Michigan and specializing in convertible tops - Dura-EuroposDura-EuroposDura-Europos , also spelled Dura-Europus, was a Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 m above the right bank of the Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Salhiyé, in today's Syria....
, an ancient city located in modern-day Syria, founded in 303 BCE and abandoned in 256–7 CE - Dura materDura materThe dura mater , or dura, is the outermost of the three layers of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord. It is derived from Mesoderm. The other two meningeal layers are the pia mater and the arachnoid mater. The dura surrounds the brain and the spinal cord and is responsible for...
, the outermost of the three layers of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord - Dora, BaghdadDora, BaghdadDora is a neighborhood in Al Rashid administrative district, southern Baghdad, Iraq. Although this was a majority Christian neighborhood, it became controlled by Sunni Muslim Extremists during the Iraq War...
, alternately transliterated "al-Dura", a neighborhood in the Rasheed administrative district in Southern Baghdad, Iraq - Cişmigiu GardensCismigiu GardensThe Cişmigiu Gardens are a public park near the center of Bucharest, Romania, spanning areas on all sides of an artificial lake. The gardens' creation was an important moment in the history of Bucharest. They form the oldest and, at 17 hectares, the largest park in city's central area...
, originally named "Lake of Dura the merchant", a public park near the center of Bucharest, Romania that surrounds an artificial lake - Muhammad al-DurrahMuhammad al-DurrahThe Muhammad al-Durrah incident took place in the Gaza Strip on September 30, 2000, on the second day of the Second Intifada, amid widespread rioting throughout the Palestinian territories...
, a Palestinian boy who was reported as shot and killed in September 2000 in a Palestinian-Israeli firefight