Minas

Minas or MINAS may refer to:

People with the given name Minas

• Menas of Ethiopia (died 1563)
• Saint Menas (Minas, 285–309)
• Minias of Florence (Minas, Miniato, died 250)
• Minas Alozidis (born 1984), Greek hurdler
• Minas Avetisyan (1928–1975)
• Minas Hantzidis (born 1966), Greek footballer
• Minas Hadjimichael (born 1956), Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Cyprus
• Minas Hatzisavvas (1948–2015), Greek actor
• Minas of Aksum, 6th-century bishop

People with the surname Minas

• Iskouhi Minas (1884–1951), French poet and writer of Armenian descent.

Places

• Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Minas, Uruguay
• Minas Department, Córdoba, Argentina
• Minas Department, Neuquén, Argentina
• Minas, Cuba, a municipality in Cuba
• Minas, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
• Minas Basin in Nova Scotia
• Les Mines, a former Acadian community on the shores of the Minas Basin (called Minas or Mines in English)

Other uses

• Minas (band), an American bossa nova band
• Minas cheese
• Minas (game contract), a contract in the card game of Schafkopf
• Minas Tênis Clube, a social and sports club from Belo Horizonte, Brazil
• MINAS, a biochemistry database
• Minas, a Cablebús station in Mexico City
• Minas Tirith, fictional city in Lord of the Rings

Mina

• Mina (unit), an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight, and hence, also unit of currency
• Mina (Sikhism), a sect of Sikhism

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Minas
• Mina (disambiguation)