# Jura

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**Jura** may refer to:

## Places

- [Jura, Scotland](/source/Jura,_Scotland), island of the Inner Hebrides off Great Britain
- [Jūra](/source/J%C5%ABra), river in Lithuania

### Mountain ranges

- [Jura Mountains](/source/Jura_Mountains), 400 km long, straddling France and Switzerland
- [Franconian Jura](/source/Franconian_Jura), south-central Germany
- [Swabian Jura](/source/Swabian_Jura), south-western Germany
- [Table Jura](/source/Table_Jura), north-eastern part of Jura Mountains
- [Montes Jura](/source/Montes_Jura), on the Moon near Mare Imbrium

### Regions

- [Jura (department)](/source/Jura_(department)), France
- [Canton of Jura](/source/Canton_of_Jura), Switzerland
- [Bernese Jura](/source/Bernese_Jura), part of the Swiss canton of Bern
- [Polish Jura](/source/Polish_Jura), an upland of southern Poland

### Villages

- [Jura, Ontario](/source/Jura,_Ontario), Canada
- [Jura, Transnistria](/source/Jura,_Transnistria), Moldova
- [Al-Jura](/source/Al-Jura), Mandatory Palestine
- [Al-Jura, Jerusalem](/source/Al-Jura,_Jerusalem), Mandatory Palestine

## Companies and organisations

- [Jura Books](/source/Jura_Books), anarchist bookshop in Sydney, Australia
- [Jura distillery](/source/Jura_distillery), Scotch whisky distillery on the island of Jura
- [Jura Elektroapparate](/source/Jura_Elektroapparate), Swiss developer and distributor of home appliances
- [Jura Federation](/source/Jura_Federation), the anarchist, Bakuninist faction of the 19th century First International

## People

- [Jura (given name)](/source/Jura_(given_name)), Slavic masculine name
- [Jura (Brazilian footballer)](/source/Jura_(Brazilian_footballer)) (born 1971 as Jurandir Fatori), Brazilian football player
- [Chuck Jura](/source/Chuck_Jura) (born 1950), American basketball player
- [Hubert Jura](/source/Hubert_Jura) (1916–?), Polish soldier

## Ships

- [*Jura* (ship, 1854)](/source/Jura_(ship,_1854)), steamship on Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and Lake Constance
- [*Jura* (ship, 2006)](/source/Jura_(ship,_2006)), vessel of the [Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency](/source/Scottish_Fisheries_Protection_Agency)

## Other uses

- [Jurassic](/source/Jurassic), a geological period
- Jura, or iura, plural of [jus](/source/Ius) (or *ius*), in Roman law
- [Jura wine](/source/Jura_wine), a French wine region
- *[Jura](/source/Jura_(album))*, a 2015 album by the Mekons and Robbie Fulks
- *Jūra* (The Sea), name of a symphonic poem for orchestra by [Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis](/source/Mikalojus_Konstantinas_%C4%8Ciurlionis)
- Jura, or the Great Forest of Jura, the fictional setting for the light novel, *[That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime](/source/That_Time_I_Got_Reincarnated_as_a_Slime)*
- Jura or [joora](/source/Joora), term for a hair bun in India

## See also

- [Jurassien dialect](/source/Jurassien_dialect), a dialect of Franco-Provençal
- [Chemins de fer du Jura](/source/Chemins_de_fer_du_Jura), a railway company in the Swiss canton of Jura
- [Gyula (disambiguation)](/source/Gyula_(disambiguation))

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