Mark
Mark may refer to:
Bible-New Testament
[edit]- Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark
- Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels
Currency
[edit]- Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic
- Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927
- Finnish markka (Swedish: finsk mark), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002
- Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations
- Polish mark (Polish: marka polska), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924
German
[edit]- 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
[edit]- John Mark (died 1st century), assistant accompanying Paul and Barnabas in the Acts of the Apostles, identified as Mark the Evangelist
- 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
- Mark (given name), a male given name, includes a list of notable people with the name
- Mark (surname), includes a list of notable people with the name
Places
[edit]- Mereg (also Mark), a village in Sarkal Rural District, in the Central District of Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran
Europe
[edit]- 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 road in London
United States
[edit]- Mark, Illinois, a village in Putnam County, Illinois
- Mark, Missouri, an extinct town in Marion County, in the U.S. state of Missouri
Sports
[edit]- 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
[edit]- March (territory) (also mark), a medieval European term for any kind of borderland
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, 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 (sign), written or imprinted symbol used to indicate some trait of an item, for example, its ownership or maker
- A mark used in lieu of a signature when the signatory is incapable of signing their name.
- 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), a vessel of the US Army and the US and Taiwanese navies
- Mark and space, terms used in telecommunications to describe two different signal states of a signal
- Glyph, a purposeful mark in typography
- Watermark, an identifying image in paper that is visible when viewed in transmitted light
- High water mark, a line that represents the maximum rise of a body of water over land