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Bunyan may refer to:

  • Paul Bunyan, a mythical lumberjack in American folklore
    • Paul Bunyan (operetta), an operetta by Benjamin Britten featuring the mythical lumberjack
  • John Bunyan (1628-1688), an English Baptist writer and preacher, author of The Pilgrim's Progress
  • John Bunyan Slaughter (1848-1928), American rancher and banker.
  • Vashti Bunyan (b. 1945), an English singer-songwriter
  • Maureen Bunyan, a Washington, D.C.-based television journalist
  • Jason Bunyan (b. 1981), a British speedway rider
  • Jay Ryan (actor) (b. 1981), a New Zealand actor, was born Jay Bunyan
  • Bunyan, New South Wales, Australia
  • Bunyan, Wisconsin, United States, an unincorporated community
  • Bünyan, a town in Central Anatolia, Turkey.
  • node-bunyan, a logging framework written for node.js.

For the foot deformity, see bunion.

Bünyan

Bünyan is a town and a district of Kayseri Province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. The town's former name was "Sarımsaklı", meaning "land of garlic" in reference to the region's considerable production of the Alliaceae plant, and this name is sometimes still used in the region.

As for the origins of the current name of "Bünyan", there are several theories.

The town is notable for its carpets (Bünyan carpet). One of the two Seljuk caravanserais named Sultan Han is located near Bünyan, as well as one of the several Danishmend mausoleums referred to as "Tomb of Melik Gazi", the one in Bünyan in fact having been built at a later period, by a bey of Dulkadirids. The town has a 1333-built Great Mosque, a legacy of the Ilkhanate rule in Anatolia, built by the Ilkhanate governor based here.

Usage examples of "bunyan".

So she was a lot of things - big like Paul Bunyan, wild like Zo, rebellious like the archaea, happy like John, and as stormy and tempestuous as the Northern Sea.

He told John Gifford, and He told John Bunyan, till both their burdens rolled off their backs, and they saw them no more.

We have some far better expositors of Scripture than John Bunyan, and we have some far better preachers.

John Bunyan at his best cannot open up a deep Scripture like that prince of expositors, Thomas Goodwin.

John Bunyan, through the flower gardens and straight across, on to Park Road where her Aunt Mildred lived.

John Bunyan, after Joel, has told us some things about the Fast-day preaching of his day that it will be well for us, both preachers and people, to begin with, and to lay well to heart.

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners In a faithful account of the life and death of John Bunyan Or A brief relation of the exceeding mercy of God in Christ to him Namely In His taking him out of the dunghill, and converting him to the faith of His blessed son Jesus Christ.

John Bunyan read neither Plato nor Aristotle, but he read David and Paul till he was the chief of sinners, and till he was first the Graceless and then the Christian of his own next-to-the-Bible book.

Above the coffeemaker an assortment of figurines marched along the shelf: Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, Mickey Mouse, Zeus, and Felix the Cat.

Book of The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan Copyright laws are changing all over the world.

The Lord Willbewill,' says John Bunyan, 'took special care that the gates should be secured with double guards, double bolts, and double locks and bars.

That is the way that Lancelot Andrewes and John Bunyan walked solitarily in the fields, sometimes reading and sometimes praying, till the one of them put himself into his immortal Devotions, and the other into his immortal Grace Abounding and Pilgrim's Progress.

Dewdrop Bunyan had snatched Borribles in the past for burgling purposes but he'd only snaffled them in ones and twos.

What was more, he might call it honesty, but anyone with half a glass eye could see that he had more axes to grind than Paul Bunyan.

He resigned from his position at the small college in Virginia and moved, with his son, to a small house in Moorhead, Minnesota, next door to where Bunyan and Blanche had settled.