Crossword clues for pula
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Southern Africa English) rain, used as an expression of greeting or good luck. 2 The currency of Botswana, divided into 100 thebe.
WordNet
n. the basic unit of money in Botswana
Wikipedia
Pula is a city in Istria, Croatia.
Pula may also refer to:
Pula or Pola ( Pola Italian and Istro-Romanian; ; Slovene and Chakavian: Pulj, , Ancient Greek: Πόλαι, Polae) is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, situated at the southern tip of the Istria peninsula, with a population of 57,460 (2011). Like the rest of the region, it is known for its mild climate, smooth sea, and unspoiled nature. The city has a long tradition of winemaking, fishing, shipbuilding, and tourism. It has also been Istria's administrative centre since ancient Roman times.
Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies on Africa, especially Southern Africa. It was established in 1978. In 2006 Pula was one of a group of African journals selected by the Michigan State University's "African e-Journals Project" to be digitized and placed online. Only articles up to 2003 are currently available, but the print journal is continuing publication.
Usage examples of "pula".
However, by mid-century Senj had been outstripped by the nearby ports of Pula and Rijeka.
This economic advance reached its highest expression in the mid-1840s when Pula began to develop into the main port of the Habsburg navy, and a large shipyard was built there.
Istria became especially important for the monarchy after 1846 when the main naval port was transferred to Pula on the tip of the peninsula because Venice was no longer safe.
Brijuni islands near Pula, the Zagorje villa in Zagreb, the Dalmatia villa in Split etc.
The Yugoslav Film Festival in Pula and the Eurovision Song Contest had become forums where republics could vote each other down.
This meant that there was a loss of thirty pula, without even taking into account other overheads, such as the cost of petrol for the tiny white van and the cost of electricity for the office.
Mma Ramotswe had put in her bill for two thousand pula, plus expenses, and had been paid by return of post.
He wrote me a letter saying that his client, Mr Solomon Moretsi, was starting a legal action against me for four thousand pula for the loss of a finger owing to an industrial accident in my factory.
It would clearly be in the interests of all concerned if this action were to be settled promptly and my client has accordingly been advised that the sum of four thousand pula will be acceptable to him in lieu of court-awarded damages.
In fact, they had spent nothing, apart from three pula for a new teaspoon, which had been required after one of the apprentices had used their existing teaspoon to fix a gearbox and had broken it.
And that, in their view, was the sort of man who was earning many thousands of pula a month and who drove an expensive car, preferably a Mercedes-Benz.
It was forty pula, which was not cheap, but then this was a proper dancing class, thought Mma Makutsi, with a real two-piece band and a room in the President Hotel.
Nobody left onstage but a few of his pals from the pula, toasting their garlic sausages and warming themselves like sanctimonious Parsees around the embers of their fiendish bone-fires, as they are properly called, according to Saint Elmo of the Smoldering Ecstatics, or else it was Saint Anthony the Great in his bone-on fever.
We got as far as Santa Margherita di Pula, right down in the south, and our car was stolen.
Bill Pula, who took me four-wheeling at the Quabbin Reservoir, and to his cohorts, Peter Baldracci, Terry Campbell, and Joe McGinn.