Lira (disambiguation)

Lira is the unit of currency of various countries.

Specific currencies

Current

• Turkish lira
• Lebanese lira
• Syrian lira
• Pound, translated "lira" in some languages

Former

• Cypriot lira 1879–2007
• French livre 781–1794
• Israeli lira 1948–1980
• Italian lira 1861–2002
• Italian East African lira 1938–1941
• Italian Somaliland lira 1925–1926
• Luccan lira until 1800 and 1826–1847
• Maltese lira 1825–2007
• Neapolitan lira 1812–1813
• Ottoman lira 1844–1923
• Papal lira 1866–1870
• Parman lira before 1802 and 1815–1859
• Sammarinese lira 1860s–2002
• Sardinian lira 1816–1861
• Tripolitanian lira 1943–1951
• Tuscan lira until 1807 and 1814–1826
• Vatican lira 1929–2002
• Venetian lira until 1807

Music

• Lira (Ukrainian instrument), a Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy
• Lira da braccio, a European bowed string instrument played during the Renaissance
• Byzantine lyra or lira, a medieval bowed string instrument
• Calabrian lira, a bowed string instrument
• Cretan lyra, a Greek pear-shaped, three-stringed bowed instrument
• Lyre, a string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later periods
• Lingm or lira, a Bhutanese flute

People

• Lira (name), a surname and given name
• Lira (singer) (born 1979), South African singer

Places

• Lira, Salvaterra de Miño, a village in Galicia, northwestern Spain
• Lira, Carnota, a village in Galicia, northwestern Spain
• Lira, Uganda, a town in northern Uganda
• Lira District, an administrative district in northern Uganda
• Lira gas field, in the Black Sea
• Mount Lira, in Antarctica

Other uses

• Lira (mollusc), lines or ridges on the shell of molluscs or brachiopods
• Lira (Encantadia), a fictional character in Encantadia
• Lira (ISS), a communications system
• Lira Airport, in Uganda
• Lira BK, a Swedish football club
• Liberal Reform Party (Czech Republic), a Czech political party
• Locked-in retirement account, a Canadian investment account designed to hold locked-in pension funds for former plan members
• Alfa class submarine or Lira class submarine
• Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport, in Rome, Italy
• Lira 512, a Yugoslav clone of the IBM PC/XT computer
• Lira-San, a fictional planet in the Star Wars universe

See also

• Lire (disambiguation)
• Liria (disambiguation)
• Lyra (disambiguation)
• Lyre (disambiguation)