Saka (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Saka were the Achaemenid "Scythian" satrapy.
Saka may also refer to:
Scythians
[edit]- Scythians
- Indo-Scythians
- Saka era, an era in India
- Indian national calendar, sometimes called the Saka calendar
Places
[edit]- Saka, Hiroshima, a town in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
- Saka, Estonia, a village in Toila Parish, Ida-Viru County, Estonia
- Saka, Latvia, a village in Saka Parish of Pāvilosta Municipality, Latvia.
- Saka, Morocco, a town in Taza Province, Morocco
- Saka, Sirhind a town in State Punjab in India
Other uses
[edit]- Saka or a last stand in battle, an ancient Indian tradition of men fighting to death. The practice was accompanied by jauhar, a women self-immolation when facing certain defeat in a war.
- Saka language, a variety of Eastern Iranian languages, attested from the ancient Buddhist kingdoms of Khotan and Tumshuq in the Tarim Basin
- Makhuwa language, also Makhuwa-Saka language, a dialect of Nkutu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
People with the surname
[edit]- Bukayo Saka (born 2001), English footballer
- Fuat Saka (born 1952), Turkish musician
- Hasan Saka (1885–1960), Turkish politician
- Katsuhiko Saka (坂 克彦, born 1985), Japanese baseball player
- Keisuke Saka (坂 圭祐, born 1995), Japanese footballer
- Osamu Saka (阪 脩, born 1930), Japanese actor and voice actor
- Paul Saka, American philosopher
- Pınar Saka (born 1985), Turkish sprinter
- Taihei Saka (坂 大平, born 1964), Japanese swimmer
See also
[edit]- Shaka (disambiguation)
- Sakha (disambiguation)
- Acestor Sakas, an Athenian tragic poet