Saar

Saar has several meanings:

Places

• Saar Region and Saar Area— in context, any of the below:
  1. Saar (river), or Saar River valley — an important navigable river running through the borderlands of France and Germany through a mineral rich, highly developed, industrial region once part of the pre-Napoleonic state of Lorraine and one center of the industrial revolution and armaments industries
  2. Saarland, a federal state of Germany
  3. Saar (protectorate), a French protectorate (1947–1956)
  4. Saar (League of Nations), a League of Nations governed territory (1920–1935)
  5. Sarre (département), a French département (1798–1814)
• Saar, Bahrain, a town in Bahrain
• Žďár in Moravia, now Žďár nad Sázavou, which was called Saar under the Austrian monarchy.
• Sarre is a town and comune in Aosta Valley region of North-Western Italy.

People

Surname

• Ain Saar (born 1968), Estonian (Võro) punk rocker and freedom fighter
• Alison Saar (born 1956), American artist
• Andrus Saar (born 1946), Estonian sociologist and journalist
• Ants Saar (1914–1995), Estonian glider pilot
• Ants Saar (1920–1989), Estonian writer
• Betye Saar (born 1926), American artist
• Erik Saar, American intelligence officer
• Evar Saar (born 1969), Estonian (Võro) non-fiction writer
• Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906), Austrian writer
• Indrek Saar (born 1973), Estonian actor and politician
• Janne Saar (born 1986), Estonian singer
• Johann Jacob Saar (1625–1664), German explorer
• Juhan Saar (1929–2007), Estonian writer
• Jüri Saar (born 1946), Estonian politician
• Jüri Saar, Estonian philosopher
• Kadi Liis Saar (born 1992), Estonian tennis player
• Kalev Saar, Estonian singer and drummer
• Lezley Saar (born 1953), American artist
• Margus Saar (born 1966), Estonian television journalist
• Mariann Saar, Estonian singer
• Mart Saar (1882–1963), Estonian composer
• Martin Saar (born 1980), Estonian artist
• Mikk Saar (born 1980), Estonian singer
• Olivia Saar (born 1931), Estonian children's writer and poet
• Richard Saar, American art conservationist
• Tõnu Saar (born 1944), Estonian actor
• Veera Saar (1912–2004), Estonian writer and pedagogue

Given name

• Saar Boubacar (born 1951), Senegalese football player
• Saar Ganor, Israeli archaeologist
• Saar Klein (born 1967), American film editor
• Saar Cotarelo, American student

Other

• A Cananite God of Storm
• Several classes of Israeli missile boats:
  • Saar 3 class missile boat
  • Saar 4 class missile boat
  • Saar 4.5 class missile boat
  • Saar 5 class missile boat
• The boss of Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones' fifth chapter.
• SS Saar, a German cargo ship in service 1937-45

SAAR may refer to:

• SAAR Records, an Italian record label
• Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate, also Industry SAAR
• Standard Annual Average Rainfall, a hydrological term used in the Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH)
• Rosario - Islas Malvinas International Airport, ICAO airport code: SAAR
• SAAR Foundation