Longa
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Longa can refer to any of the following:
  • The longa
    Longa (music)
    A longa is a musical note that could be either twice or three times as long as a breve, four or six times as long as a semibreve/whole note, that appears in early music...

     is a musical note twice as long in duration as a breve
    Note value
    In music notation, a note value indicates the relative duration of a note, using the color or shape of the note head, the presence or absence of a stem, and the presence or absence of flags/beams/hooks/tails....

    , appearing primarily in Early music
    Early music
    Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...

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  • Longa
    Longa (Middle Eastern music)
    A longa is a genre in Turkish music that was adapted from the Romanian music, also influenced by the Byzantine music, with many elements of syrtos dance in the late 19th century...

    , a genre in Turkish and Arabic music
  • Longa
    Longa, Angola
    Longa is a town and municipality in Cuando Cubango Province in Angola....

     is the name of a town and river in Angola
    Angola
    Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

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  • Longa (Greek: Λόγγα) is also a place in Messinia in Greece
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

    , in the municipality of Aipeia
    Aipeia
    Aipeia is a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Messene, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 2,574 . The seat of the municipality was in Longa....

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  • Longa Island
    Longa Island
    Longa Island is an uninhabited island at the mouth of Gair Loch on the west coast of Scotland.-Economy:There was a small fishing community in early in the 19th Century; the island had become deserted by the latter part.-Footnotes:...

     is an island near Gairloch
    Gairloch
    Gairloch is a village, civil parish and community on the shores of Loch Gairloch on the northwest coast of Scotland. A popular tourist destination in the summer months, Gairloch has a golf course, a small museum, several hotels, a community centre, a leisure centre with sports facilities, a local...

     in Scotland
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

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  • Longa Stacks, small islets off the west coast of Unst
    Unst
    Unst is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles and is the third largest island in Shetland after the Mainland and Yell. It has an area of .Unst is largely grassland, with coastal cliffs...

    , Shetland, Scotland.
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