Language and Literature
- Maria language (India)
- Maria language (Papua New Guinea)
- María (novel), a 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs
- Maria (play), a 1935 play by Isaac Babel
- Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, a 1798 unfinished novel by Mary Wollstonecraft
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