Dora

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Dora can refer to:

Space

• Asteroid 668 Dora

Music

• HRT Dora, pop festival that serves as the Croatian national preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest

War history

• Mittelbau-Dora, World War II concentration camp
• Fw 190 D "Dora", a model of Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft
• Dora (artillery), 80cm railway artillery pieces constructed by the Krupp company for Nazi Germany during World War II;
• DORA 1 and DORA 2, U-boat bunkers in Trondheim, Norway
• DORA, the Defence of the Realm Act 1914, passed in Britain in August 1914

Geographic locations

• Dora (Baghdad), a major neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq
• Dora, Lebanon, a suburb of Beirut

Australia

• Lake Dora (Tasmania)
• Lake Dora (Western Australia)

United States

• Dora, Alabama
• Dora, Arkansas
• Dora, New Mexico

Italy

Two rivers, tributaries of the Po River, from the Celtic "duria", meaning water:

• Dora Baltea
• Dora Riparia

Engineering

• The EV-DO Revision A standard, abbreviated DOrA

Popular media

• Dora the Explorer, a television program aimed at young children airing on Nick Jr.

Other

• Hurricane Dora, a 1964 hurricane, the first and last to hit Jacksonville, Florida
• The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Canadian professional theatre
• Dora, a minor character in the webcomic Erfworld

See also

• Doralice, a female first name

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