Maia
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Maia can mean several things:
- Maia Mailguard is an Open Source management system for amavisd-new and SpamAssassin.
- Maia (mythology), in Greek mythology, is the eldest of the Pleiades , the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
- Maia Maiestas was identified in Roman mythology also called Fauna, Bona Dea (the 'Good Goddess') and Ops), a goddess who may be equivalent to an old Italic goddess of spring.
- Maia (star) in astronomy, (20 Tauri) is the third brightest of the seven bright stars in the Pleiades open star cluster.
- Maia (novel) is a fantasy novel by Richard Adams.
- Maia is a fictional novel supposedly written by the main character in Death in Venice.
- A Maiar in J. R. R. Tolkien's mythos is one from the lesser kind of Ainur, angelic beings who pre-date the creation of Eä.
- Maia Chiburdanidze is a former women's world chess champion.
- Salgueiro Maia was a Portuguese captain during the Carnation Revolution
- Maia Acheron is a character in Jak and Daxter
- Maia (crab) is a genus of spider crabs from the family Majidae
- Maia, Portugal is a city in Oporto metropolitan area in Portugal
- Maia (Ribeira Grande) is a parish in Ribeira Grande in the Azores (an autonomous region of Portugal)
- Maia, New Zealand is a suburb of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand
- Maia, Russia
- Maia, Switzerland, a part of Intragna in the Canton of Tessin
- The Maia Institute in Monaco is a private research institute specialized in Multi-agent systems
- Maya people (Australia), an Australian Aboriginal tribe
- Maia Stefana Oprea is a promising young Romanian painter
- Maia, Colombia,colombian singer
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