Manić

Manić (Serbian Cyrillic: Манић) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Barajevo.

Manić developed on the eastern slopes of the Kosmaj mountain. It is located in the southeastern tip of the Barajevo municipality, south of the municipal center of Barajevo.

It's a small rural settlement, one of the least populous in the municipality, with a population of 551 (Census 2002), and a significant Romani minority (17,2%).

Coordinates: 44°30′43″N 20°25′59″E / 44.51194°N 20.43306°E / 44.51194; 20.43306

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese is a travel book by English author Patrick Leigh Fermor, published in 1958. It covers his journey with wife Joan and friend Xan Fielding around the Mani peninsula in southern Greece.

Travel

The book chronicles Leigh Fermor's travels around the Mani peninsula in southern mainland Greece. The region is typically viewed as inhospitable and isolated from much of the remainder of Greece due its harsh geography. The Taygetus Mountains run down the middle of the peninsula, limiting most settlements to small villages on or near the coast. They begin near Kalamata, and then proceed south along the Mani coastline (mostly by boat or caique), ending the book in the town of Gytheon.

Leigh Fermor's book almost never mentions his traveling companions, and only rarely delves into first-person experiences. Much of the book concentrates on the history of the Maniots and of their larger place in Greek and European history; the middle portion of the book contains lengthy digressions on art history, icons, religion, and myth in Maniot society.

Mani (name)

Mani (Sanskrit for "jewel, gem"), is a common proper name in South Asia. It is most common in Pakistan and India. There are also a number of unrelated names also spelled Mani, some of them hypokoristic, such as German Mani for Manfred.

List of persons with the given name

Kuru

Kuru may refer to:

Anthropology and history

Geography

Transport

Kuruş

Kuruş (derived from the French gros, German Groschen and Hungarian Garas; Ottoman Turkish: قروش gurûş) is a Turkish currency subunit. Since 2005, one Turkish lira is equal to 100 kuruş. The kuruş was also the standard unit of currency in the Ottoman Empire until 1844, and from that date until the late 1970s was a subdivision of the former lira. It was subdivided into 40 para (پاره), each of 3 akçe. In European languages, the kuruş was often referred to as the piastre, derived from the Italian word piastra.

Coinage

The kuruş was introduced in 1688. It was initially a large, silver coin, approximately equal to the French écu, or, from other sources, to the Spanish dollar. However, during the 18th and early 19th centuries, debasement reduced the kuruş to a billon coin weighing less than 3 grams.

At the beginning of the 19th century, silver coins were in circulation for 1 akçe, 1, 5, 10 and 20 para, 1, 2 and 2½ kuruş, together with gold coins denominated in zeri mahbub and altin. As the silver coins were debased, other denominations appeared: 30 para, 1½, 3, 5 and 6 kuruş. The final coinage issued before the currency reform consisted of billon 1, 10 and 20 para, and silver 1½, 3 and 6 kuruş.

Kuru (mythology)

Kuru is an ethnic Meetei/Meitei name for the supreme God, Atiya Kuru Shidaba. It is used by tribes including Kuki, Paite, Hamar, Zou, Tangkhul and Chiru. Kuru's full name is Atiya Kuru Shidaba (Atiya, the vast and empty sky; Kuru, the round or circular hemisphere; and Shidaba, eternal).

In modern times, Kuru is also used to refer to a teacher/parent/educator/instructor who stands above all hindrances and attraction.

Another usage is for things pertaining to anything living or non-living.

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