Vara

Vara or VARA may refer to:

Geography

• Vara (river), in Liguria, Italy
• Vara Parish, former municipality in Tartu County, Estonia
• Vara, Estonia, village in Peipsiääre Parish, Tartu County, Estonia
• Vara Municipality, municipality in western Sweden
  • Vara, Sweden, town in Sweden
• Batterie Vara, former German coastal fortress near Kristiansand, Norway, now Kristiansand Cannon Museum
• Las Varas (disambiguation), several places

People with the surname

• Armando Vara (born 1954), Portuguese politician
• Julián Vara (born 1983), Spanish footballer
• Kathy Vara, American television anchor
• Shailesh Vara, British Conservative Party politician

Films

• Vara (film), a 2013 Kannada film starring Nidhi Subbaiah
• Vara: A Blessing , a 2013 Bhutanese film by Khyentse Norbu

Other uses

• Vara, a rarely used Spanish and Portuguese unit of length
  • Portuguese customary units
  • Spanish customary units
• Vara, a variety of the Central Banda language of the Central African Republic
• Vara, a variety of the Upper Morehead language of Papua New Guinea
• Vara, list of Greyhawk deities, a fictional deity in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game
• A.S.D. Fo.Ce. Vara, former football club in Italy
• VARA HF, a proprietary WinLink protocol for e-mail communications over amateur radio
• Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA), is a US federal law protecting limited moral rights of visual artists.
• Vāra (astronomy), a week-day in Indian calendrical systems

Acronyms

• Omroepvereniging VARA, a public broadcasting organization in the Netherlands
• Visual Artists Rights Act, a law in the United States that protects artists' moral rights to attribution and the integrity of their work
• Virgin Australia Regional Airlines, is an Australian regional airline based in Perth Australia

See also

• Vada (disambiguation)
• Bara (disambiguation)
• Varus deformity, as in "tibia vara"
• Vada (food), an Indian fried snack
• Varam (film), a 1993 Indian film