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词条 Shire (disambiguation)
释义

  1. Places

     Geography  In Africa  In Europe  In North America  Elsewhere  Buildings  Shopping Centres 

  2. People

     Given name or middle name  Surname 

  3. Arts, entertainment, and media

     Fictional entities  Music  Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media 

  4. Brands and enterprises

  5. Other uses

  6. See also

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A shire is a type of region in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Shire or The Shires may also refer to:

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Places

Geography

In Africa

  • Shire, Ethiopia, a town in Ethiopia also known as Inda Selassie
  • Apostolic Vicariate of Shire, a Roman Catholic territorial jurisdiction in what was then Nyasaland Protectorate, Africa
  • Shire River, a river in Malawi and Mozambique

In Europe

  • Shire Brook, in South Yorkshire, England
  • Shire Country Park, a park south of Birmingham, England
  • Shire Highlands, a plateau in southern Malawi lying east of the Shire River
  • The Shire, an informal name for various counties of the United Kingdom

In North America

  • Shires of Virginia
  • "The Shire", a colloquial term for the American state of New Hampshire

Elsewhere

  • Sutherland Shire colloquially referred to as The Shire, a suburban region of southern Sydney, Australia

Buildings

  • Shire Hall, Monmouth, Wales, a building
  • Shire Hall, Newport, Wales, a building

Shopping Centres

  • The Shires, former name of the shopping centre now known as Highcross Leicester
  • The Shires Shopping Centre in Trowbridge, Wiltshire

People

Given name or middle name

  • Shire Jama Ahmed, Somali linguist credited with devising a Latin script for transcribing the Somali language
  • Barre Adan Shire Hiiraale, Somali Minister of Defense and leader of the Juba Valley Alliance

Surname

  • Abdisamad Ali Shire, Vice President of Puntland
  • David Shire (born 1937), American songwriter and composer
  • Mohamoud Ali Shire (1897–1960), 26th Sultan of the Warsangali Sultanate (Somalia)
  • Talia Shire (born 1946), American actress
  • Warsan Shire, British writer and poet
  • Shires (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

  • Shire (Middle-earth), a region in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
  • Randall Shire, a Marvel Comics character

Music

  • The Shires (duo), British country music duo
  • The Shire (soundtrack), part of the soundtrack of The Fellowship of the Ring

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • The Shire (TV series), a reality television series about the Sutherland Shire, set in the suburban region of southern Sydney, Australia.
  • The Shires, poetry collection by Donald Davie 1974

Brands and enterprises

  • Shire (pharmaceutical company), a British speciality pharmaceuticals company
  • Shire Books, a British publisher of books on history, heritage and antiques
  • Shire Foods, a manufacturer of pies, pasties, and sausage rolls based in Warwickshire, England

Other uses

  • Battle of Shire, fought in 1936 as part of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War
  • East Stirlingshire F.C., Scottish football club nicknamed "The Shire"
  • Shire horse, a large breed of draft horse

See also

  • Shier, a surname
  • Shyer, a surname
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