Zara (given name)

Zara is a feminine given name.

It is the English form of the name Zaïre, the central character of Voltaire's 1732 play Zaïre (The Tragedy of Zara). Voltaire may have been influenced by the Arabic name Zahra.

Its popularity may be influenced by the naming of Princess Anne's daughter Zara Phillips in 1981, and the Spanish fashion store Zara.

Another derivation, unrelated to the above, is the Bulgarian name Zara (Зара) which is a diminutive of Zaharina or Zaharinka.

Notable people with this name

Zara (Russian singer)

Zarifa Pashaevna Mgoyan (Russian: Зарифа́ Паша́евна Мгоя́н: born 26 July 1983), known as Zara (За́ра), is a Russian pop singer and actress.

Zara is from Armenia and is of ethnic Yazidi background. Until 2004, she professed Yezidism, but has since converted to Russian Orthodoxy.

Zara Mgoyan married Sergey Vladimirovich Matviyenko on April 30, 2004; they divorced one year later. Sergey Matviyenko is the son of Valentina Matviyenko, Russia's most powerful female politician.

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Zara, Turkey

Zara is a town and a district of Sivas Province of Turkey. The mayor is Sayıt Ahmet Pala (AKP). The town is 70 km. (appr. 45 miles) away from Sivas down town.

Economy

Historically, silver was extracted from lead in Zara. Coal, asbestos, and arsenic were also produced in the area.

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Hardcore (1979 film)

Hardcore is a 1979 American crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring George C. Scott, Peter Boyle and Season Hubley. The story concerns a father searching for his daughter, who has vanished only to appear in a pornographic film. Writer-director Schrader had previously written the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, and both films share a theme of exploring an unseen subculture.

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Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) is a prosperous local businessman in Grand Rapids, Michigan who has strong Calvinist convictions. A single parent, Van Dorn is the father of a seemingly quiet, conservative teenage girl, Kristen, who inexplicably disappears when she goes on a church-sponsored trip to Bellflower, California. Andy Mast (Peter Boyle), a strange private investigator from Los Angeles, is then hired to find her, eventually turning up an 8mm stag film of his daughter with two young men.

Van Dorn then suspects that his daughter was kidnapped and forced to join California's porno underworld. His quest to rescue her takes him on an odyssey through this sleazy adult subculture.

Hardcore (1977 film)

Hardcore is a 1977 British comedy film directed by James Kenelm Clarke and starring Fiona Richmond, Anthony Steel, Victor Spinetti, Ronald Fraser and Harry H. Corbett. It depicts a highly fictionalised account of the life of Richmond, who was a leading pin-up in the 1970s.

In the US the film was known as Fiona.

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Hardcore (Daddy Freddy album)

Hardcore is an album by Daddy Freddy.

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Bass

Bass or Basses may refer to:

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