Uru
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Uru may refer to
  • URU, a determinative in mesopotamian cuneiform script; see Cities of the Ancient Near East
    Cities of the ancient Near East
    The largest cities in the Bronze Age ancient Near East housed several tens of thousands. Memphis in the Early Bronze Age with some 30,000 inhabitants was the largest city of the time by far...

  • Uru, São Paulo
    Uru, São Paulo
    Uru is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 was 1,432 and the area is 148.96 km². The elevation is 427 m....

    , a city in Brazil
  • Mekanika Uru, a submachine gun
  • Uru (boat), an ancient trading vessel
  • Uru: Ages Beyond Myst
    Uru: Ages Beyond Myst
    Uru: Ages Beyond Myst is an adventure video game developed by Cyan Worlds and published by Ubisoft. Released in 2003, the title is the fourth game in the Myst canon. Departing from previous games of the franchise, Uru takes place in the modern era and allows players to customize their onscreen...

    , a computer game
    • Myst Online: Uru Live
      Myst Online: Uru Live
      Myst Online: Uru Live is an open source massively multiplayer online adventure game developed by Cyan Worlds. The game is the multiplayer component to the 2003 video game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst. Like Uru, Myst Online takes place in 2000's New Mexico, where an ancient civilization known as the D'ni...

      , an online version of the original game
  • Uru (The Lion King), a fictional lioness character
  • Uru, the fictional metal in Marvel Comics, from which Thor's hammer Mjolnir (comics) is made


Uru may also refer to:
  • Lake Uru Uru south of the Bolivian town of Oruro
  • Uros
    Uros
    The Uros are a pre-Incan people who live on forty-two self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca Puno, Peru and Bolivia. They form three main groups: Uru-Chipayas, Uru-Muratos and the Uru-Iruitos...

    , a group of pre-Incan people who live at Lake Titicaca


See also:
  • A collection of small villages on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro
    Mount Kilimanjaro
    Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is a dormant volcano in Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania and the highest mountain in Africa at above sea level .-Geology:...

    , Tanzania
  • The country code of Uruguay
    Uruguay
    Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

  • The Awakener, a spiritual entity in Daniel Quinn
    Daniel Quinn
    Daniel Quinn is an American writer described as an environmentalist. He is best known for his book Ishmael , which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991....

    's parable Uru in the Valley of Sleepers
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