Jura

Jura may refer to:

Places

• Jura, Scotland, island of the Inner Hebrides off Great Britain
• Jūra, river in Lithuania

Mountain ranges

• Jura Mountains, 400 km long, straddling France and Switzerland
• Franconian Jura, south-central Germany
• Swabian Jura, south-western Germany
• Table Jura, north-eastern part of Jura Mountains
• Montes Jura, on the Moon near Mare Imbrium

Regions

• Jura (department), France
• Canton of Jura, Switzerland
• Bernese Jura, part of the Swiss canton of Bern
• Polish Jura, an upland of southern Poland

Villages

• Jura, Ontario, Canada
• Jura, Transnistria, Moldova
• Al-Jura, Mandatory Palestine
• Al-Jura, Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine

Companies and organisations

• Jura Books, anarchist bookshop in Sydney, Australia
• Jura distillery, Scotch whisky distillery on the island of Jura
• Jura Elektroapparate, Swiss developer and distributor of home appliances
• Jura Federation, the anarchist, Bakuninist faction of the 19th century First International

People

• Jura (given name), Slavic masculine name
• Jura (Brazilian footballer) (born 1971 as Jurandir Fatori), Brazilian football player
• Chuck Jura (born 1950), American basketball player
• Hubert Jura (1916–?), Polish soldier

Ships

• Jura (ship, 1854), steamship on Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and Lake Constance
• Jura (ship, 2006), vessel of the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency

Other uses

• Jurassic, a geological period
• Jura, or iura, plural of jus (or ius), in Roman law
• Jura wine, a French wine region
• Jura, a 2015 album by the Mekons and Robbie Fulks
• Jūra (The Sea), name of a symphonic poem for orchestra by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
• Jura, or the Great Forest of Jura, the fictional setting for the light novel, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
• Jura or joora, term for a hair bun in India

See also

• Jurassien dialect, a dialect of Franco-Provençal
• Chemins de fer du Jura, a railway company in the Swiss canton of Jura
• Gyula (disambiguation)