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" sometimes used in the early English literature, currently common in many other languages-->
  • 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)