title: Duras
text: # Duras
  
  Duras may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Albanian city of Durrës (obsolete French spelling)
  * Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, a commune of the Lot-et-Garonne département in France
  * Duras, Belgium [nl], a constituent village of the commune of Sint-Truiden in the Belgian province of Limburg
  
  ## People
  
  * County of Duras, a noble family in the 11th and 12th centuries whose seat was Duras, Belgium
  * Duras (Dacian king) (ruled c.69-87), king of Dacia who attacked the Roman empire
  * Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), pseudonym of Marguerite Donnadieu, a French writer and film director
  * Claire de Duras (1777–1828), a French writer
  * Oldřich Duras or Důras (1882–1957), Czech chess International Grandmaster
  * Důras, Czech surname
  
  ## Other
  
  * Duras (grape), a red wine grape from Tarn in France
  * House of Duras, in Star Trek, a house in the Klingon Empire
  