Mark

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Mark may refer to:

Bible-New Testament

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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, 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

  • 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 road 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

  • 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 (sign), written or imprinted symbol used to indicate some trait of an item, for example, its ownership or maker
  • 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

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Mark
  • All pages with titles containing Mark
  • Marked (disambiguation)
  • Marc (disambiguation)
  • The Mark (disambiguation)
  • Marker (disambiguation)
  • Marking (disambiguation)
  • Marks (disambiguation)
  • Marque (disambiguation)
  • St. Mark's (disambiguation)
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