title: Hira
text: # Hira
  
  Hira may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Cave of Hira, a cave associated with Muhammad
  * Al-Hirah, an ancient Arab city in Iraq
     * Battle of Hira, 633AD, between the Sassanians and the Rashidun Caliphate
  * Hira Mountains, Japan
  * Hira, New Zealand, settlement north-east of Nelson, New Zealand
  * Hira (ghetto), an old Jewish ghetto in Tunis, see History of the Jews in Tunisia
  * Hira (Greece), an ancient Greek settlement
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Hira (surname)
  * Hira (given name)
  * Hira (mythical monster), among the Songhai people of West Africa
  * The Hira Company Ltd, the parent company of Texet Sales Ltd, a British distributor of calculators and electronic devices
  * HIRA, a gene
  * Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment, a technique used to identify add address occupational safety and health risks
  * "Hira", a song by Redgum from their 1984 album Frontline
  * Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA), a government agency in South Korea
  * Hira, the ISO 15924 script code for Hiragana
  