Mark

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Mark may refer to:

Currency[]

German[]

  • Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002
  • German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914
  • German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914
  • German Rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany
  • Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghetto.
  • Reichsmark, the currency in Germany from 1924 until 20 June 1948 in West Germany

People[]

  • John Mark (died 1st century), assistant accompanying Paul and Barnabas in the Acts of the Apostles
  • Mark Codman (died 1755), African-American slave owned by John Codman of Massachusetts
  • Mark Lee (singer), Canadian rapper and singer-songwriter
  • Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark
  • Mark of Cornwall (fl. early 6th century), king of Kernow
  • Pope Mark (died 336), Pope of the Catholic Church from 18 January to 7 October 336

Names[]

Places[]

  • Mereg (also Mark), a village in Sarkal Rural District, in the Central District of Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran

Europe[]

  • Amt Dahme/Mark a collective municipality in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg, Germany
  • Amt Lindow (Mark), a collective municipality in the district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin in Brandenburg, Germany
  • Baruth/Mark, a town in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brandenburg, Germany
  • County of Mark, a county and state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle
  • Friesack/Mark, a town in the Havelland district in Brandenburg, Germany
  • Mark (Dender), a river in Belgium
  • Mark (Dintel), a river in Belgium and the Netherlands
  • Mark Hundred, a Västergötland hundred in Sweden
  • Mark Municipality, a municipality in Västra Götaland County in southwest Sweden
  • Mark, Somerset, an English village and civil parish
  • Mark Lane, a raod in London

United States[]

Sports[]

  • Mark, a term used in professional wrestling with multiple meanings
  • Mark (Australian rules football), where a player cleanly catches a kicked ball that has travelled more than 15 metres without anyone else touching it
  • Mark (rugby), a play in which a player may catch the ball and take a free-kick at the position of the mark

Other[]

  • Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels
  • March (territory) (also mark), a medieval European term for any kind of borderland
  • <mark>...</mark>, an HTML element used for highlighting relevant text in a quotation
  • Mark, the victim of a confidence trick
  • Mark (designation), a method of designating a version of a product
  • Mark (dinghy), a single-hander class of small sailing dinghy
  • Mark (unit), a medieval weight or mass unit that supplanted the pound weight as a precious metals and coinage weight from the 11th century
  • USS Mark (AG-143), vessel of the US Army and the US & Taiwanese Navies
  • Mark and space, terms used in telecommunications to describe two different signal states of a signal

See also[]

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