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Encyclopedia > Samana

The term Samana can mean one of several things:


Places

  • Cape Samana or Samana Peninsula is a land feature of the Dominican Republic
  • Samaná is a province of the Dominican Republic
  • Samana Bay is a body of water in the Atlantic next to Cape Samana, the Dominican Republic
  • Samana is a town on Cape Samana in the Dominican Republic
  • Samana is a taluka in Patiala District in the Indian state of Punjab (India)
  • Samana is a place in Pakistan near Peshawar

Samaná Province Santa Bárbara de Samaná (Samaná City) Samaná Mountain Range (Sierra de Samaná) Category: ... The Samana Bay is a bay in eastern Dominican Republic. ... Samana is a town or community in eastern Dominican Republic. ... The equivalent terms tehsil, tahsil, tahasil, taluka, taluk, and taluq refer to a unit of government in some countries of the Indian subcontinent. ... , Patiala   (Punjabi: ਪਟਿਆਲਾ) is a city in the Punjab state of India. ... , This article is about the Indian state of Punjab. ... Samana Range is a mountain ridge in Kohat district of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, commanding the S. boundary of Tirah. ...   (Urdu: پشاور; Pashto: پښور) literally means City on the Frontier in Persian and is known as Pekhawar in Pashto. ...

People

  • A Samana, Samaṇa, or Shramana is the name for certain wandering ascetics from India, one of whom was Gautama Buddha
  • Samana was the mother of Imam Ali al-Hadi
  • Samana was the mother of Imam Ali Naqi, wife of Imam Muhammad Taqi

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