Gloria

Gloria (Latin gloria "glory") stands for:

• Gloria, the glory of God
• the personification of glory in Roman mythology, see Fama
• Gloria (name), a female given name and family name
• Gloria (potato), a predominantly waxy potato variety
• Gloria (ship), Colombian sail training ship
• Nissan Gloria, a car model
• Ascensor da Glória, one of the three funicular railways in Lisbon
• Hurricane Gloria, a tropical cyclone from 1985
• Radio Gloria, Switzerland
• Typhoon Gloria, tropical cyclone from 1999
• Linux Mint 7 Gloria, codename of the version 7 of Linux Mint
• Storm Gloria, a winter storm in Spain in 2020

Establishments:

• Gloria (Saarbrücken), Saarbrücken discotheque and former cinema
• Gloria cinema (Buchen) in the Neckar-Odenwald district, Baden-Württemberg
• Gloria Palace, Berlin
• Filmpalast Gloria, Weißenfels
• Gloria Theatre (Cologne)
• Gloria Theatre (Bad Säckingen)

Company:

• Gloria (fire protection), German manufacturer of fire protection technology
• Gloria automobile factory, Austrian automobile manufacturer
• Gloria Film Distribution
• Wisa Gloria, Swiss toy company

Music:

• Gloria brass band, Moravian brass band
• Gloria (band), a German musician duo
• Gloria (Jenkins), sacred choral work by Karl Jenkins (2010)
• Gloria (Joachim Witt song), song by Joachim Witt (2012)
• Gloria (Rutter), choral work by John Rutter (1974)
• Gloria (Them song), song by Van Morrison / Them (1964)
• Gloria (Umberto Tozzi song), song by Umberto Tozzi (1979), successfully covered by Laura Branigan (1982)
• Gloria!, the eleventh studio album by Gloria Estefan (1998)

Feature Films:

• Gloria (1931) by Hans Behrendt
• Gloria - Love of my life (1977) by Claude Autant-Lara
• Gloria the Moll (1980) by John Cassavetes
• Gloria (1982) by Eva Zsurzs
• Gloria (1999), remake of the Cassavetes film by Sidney Lumet
• Gloria (2013) by Sebastián Lelio
• Gloria (2014) by Christian Keller
• Gloria - Life Doesn't Wait (2018), by Sebastián Lelio

Gloria or Glória are the names of the following places:

• Glória (Bahia), municipality in the Brazilian state of Bahia
• Glória (Rio de Janeiro), district of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro
• Glória (Joinville), district of the Brazilian city of Joinville
• Glória (Aveiro), municipality in the Portuguese county of Aveiro
• Glória (Estremoz) Municipality in the Portuguese county of Estremoz
• Gloria (Oriental Mindoro), municipality, province of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines

GLORIA stands as an abbreviation for:

• Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments, research programme
• GLObal Robotic telescope Intelligent Array, a network of remotely controlled astronomical observation sites.

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