Minas
# Minas

Minas or MINAS may refer to:

## People with the given name Minas

* Menas of Ethiopia (died 1563)
* Saint Menas (Minas, 285–309)
* Minias of Florence (Minas, Miniato, died 250)
* Minas Alozidis (born 1984), Greek hurdler
* Minas Avetisyan (1928–1975)
* Minas Hantzidis (born 1966), Greek footballer
* Minas Hadjimichael (born 1956), Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Cyprus
* Minas Hatzisavvas (1948–2015), Greek actor
* Minas of Aksum, 6th-century bishop

## People with the surname Minas

* Iskouhi Minas (1884–1951), French poet and writer of Armenian descent.

## Places

* Minas Gerais, Brazil
* Minas, Uruguay
* Minas Department, Córdoba, Argentina
* Minas Department, Neuquén, Argentina
* Minas, Cuba, a municipality in Cuba
* Minas, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
* Minas Basin in Nova Scotia
* Les Mines, a former Acadian community on the shores of the Minas Basin (called Minas or Mines in English)

## Other uses

* Minas (band), an American bossa nova band
* Minas cheese
* Minas (game contract), a contract in the card game of Schafkopf
* Minas Tênis Clube, a social and sports club from Belo Horizonte, Brazil
* MINAS, a biochemistry database
* Minas, a Cablebús station in Mexico City
* Minas Tirith, fictional city in Lord of the Rings

## Mina

* Mina (unit), an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight, and hence, also unit of currency
* Mina (Sikhism), a sect of Sikhism
