Artemisia
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[edit] Botany
- Artemisia (genus), a genus of plants including the sagebrush and wormwood
[edit] Geography
- Artemisia Geyser in Yellowstone National Park
- Artemissia, Messinia, a Greek village west of Taygetus mountain in the Peloponnese
- Artemisia, Zakynthos, a municipality on Zakynthos, Greece
- Kingdom of Artemisia, a regional designation within the Society for Creative Anachronism
[edit] History
- Artemisia (ship), 1848, the first government immigrant ship to arrive in Moreton Bay, now Queensland, then New South Wales
[edit] People
- Artemisia I of Caria (fl. 480 BC), Female naval commander in the Persian Empire, under the rule of Xerxes I of Persia
- Artemisia II of Caria (died 350 BC), Female satrap who ordered the construction of the Mausoleum
- Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1651/1653), an Italian painter
[edit] Theatre and film
- Artemisia (opera) (Venice, 1657) an opera by Cavalli
- Artemisia (Goldoni), an unperformed 18th century play by Carlo Goldoni
- Artemizia, an unfinished opera by Domenico Cimarosa, which he worked on until his death in 1801
- Artemisia (film), a 1997 French film about the Italian painter
[edit] Fiction
- Artemisia oth Hinriad, character from the novel The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
[edit] See also
- Artemesia, a genus of prawns
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