Amazon

Amazon or Amazons may refer to:

• Amazons, members of a legendary nation of female warriors in Greek mythology
• more generally, any "woman warrior"
  • History of women in the military
  • Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the African kingdom of Dahomey
  • Amazon feminism, dedicated to the image of the female hero in fiction and in fact

• Amazon River, the largest river in the world by volume
  • Amazon Rainforest, a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America
  • Amazon Basin, the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries
  • Amazon parrots, a large genus of parrot from the Americas, popular in aviculture

brands and titles

companies:

• Amazon.com, an American electronic commerce company based in Seattle, Washington, and its separate websites in seven other countries
• Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, an "independent feminist bookstore" in Minneapolis, Minnesota

conservation:

• Amazon Fund

literature:

• Amazons (comics), legendary warrior women from the DC Comics universe associated with the superheroine Wonder Woman
• Swallows and Amazons (series), a series by Arthur Ransome about two girl sailors and would-be pirates
• Amazon (comics), also known as Man-Killer, a villain in the Marvel Comics universe
• The Amazon (book), a book by Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead

music:

• Amazon (band), a Brazilian heavy metal band formed in 2002
• Amazon (Ruslana song), song by the winner of the 2004 Eurovision , Ruslana

television and film:

• Amazons (1984 film), a TV-Movie starring Tamara Dobson
• Amazons (1986 film), a 1986 Argentine adventure science fiction fantasy epic
• Amazon (TV series), a 1999 TV series adaptation of a Peter Benchley story
• Amazon Women on the Moon, a 1987 film written by comedy duo Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland
• Amazon Women in the Mood, an episode from the 3rd season of Futurama.
• Kamen Rider Amazon, a japanese television show.

vehicles:

• HMS Amazon, the name of four ships of the British Royal Navy
• Amazon, an historic ship, built in 1885 as a screw schooner yacht
• Volvo Amazon, a car model from Volvo produced from 1956-1970
• Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive
• Amazon (automobile), an interwar British car

other:

• Amazon (Fairy chess piece), a fairy chess piece which is used in some variants of chess
• Game of the Amazons, a board game
• Military - Libya's Col. Kadaffi's Personal Bodyguards called "The Amazonian Guard". See Women in military history, Re.: Countries, Re.: Libya. Libya is the only Islamic Nation that has women in the military.
• 1984 Adventure game created by Michael Crichton.

See also

• Amazonas (disambiguation)
• Amazon Fund