Vasa
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Vasa may refer to:
- House of Vasa, a medieval Swedish noble family, the royal house of Sweden 1523–1654 and of Poland 1587–1668
- Vasa (ship), a Swedish warship that sank in 1628, since restored
- Vasa Museum, Stockholm, where the restored ship is currently displayed
- Order of Vasa, one of the Royal Swedish orders of knighthood
- Vasa Order of America, a Swedish-American Fraternal Order
- vasa gene, a gene that is essential for germ cell development and was first identified in Drosophila melanogaster
In places:
- Vasa (Rajasthan), a village in Sirohi District, Rajashthan, India
- Vaşa, Azerbaijan
- Väsa, a village in Dalarna, Sweden
- Vasa County, a historic county in modern-day Finland
- Vasa Park, New Jersey
- Vasa Township, Minnesota
- Wausa, Nebraska, named after Gustav Vasa, but with a slightly different spelling
- Vasa Loch, a brackish lagoon in southwestern Shapinsay, Orkney Islands
- Vasa, the Swedish name for the Finnish city of Vaasa
- Vasa Kellakiou, Cyprus
- Vasa Koilaniou, Cyprus
In anatomy:
- Vasa nervorum, small arteries that provide blood supply to peripheral nerves
- Vasa praevia, an obstetric complication
- Vasa recta, capillaries within the kidneys
- Vasa recta (intestines), capillaries surrounding the intestines
- Vasa vasorum, capillaries that supply the outer tissues of large blood vessels
In other uses:
- Vása, the sun in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional cosmology
- Vasa IFK, a Finnish football club
- Vasa parrot, a genus of parrots from Madagascar
- Vasaloppet, a Swedish ski race
[edit] People with the name Vasa
- Gustav Vasa (1496–1560), King of Sweden
- Robert F. Vasa (born 1951), Bishop of Baker
- Vasa Mihich (born 1933), American artist
- Vasa Mijić (born 1973), Serbian volleyball player
- Gustavus Vasa Fox (1821–1883), U.S. Naval officer during the American Civil War
- Kettil Karlsson (Vasa) (1433–1465), was a Swedish clergyman and regent of Sweden from 1464 to 1465
- House of Vasa was the Royal House of Sweden 1523-1654 and of Poland and Lithuania 1587–1668
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