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SVA
SVA is a TLA that can stand for SVA is the ICAO code for Saudi Arabian AirlinesSystemVerilog AssertionsSchool of Visual ArtsSingle Vehicle ApprovalStereo variable-areaShareholder Value ..

Svadeshi
Svadeshi was the philosophy articulated by Gandhi that it is a person's duty to patronize indigenous goods. References [natha.net]..

Svadilfari
In Norse mythology, Svadilfari was a magical stallion, owned by a hrimthurs (rime giant) disguised as a human stonemason, who built the walls of Asgard and whose name is uncertain. Significance of the name is uncertain. Some sources translate it as "slave", but Zoëga's Old Icelandic dictionary make..

Svafrlami
Svafrlami was in the H and U version of the Hervarar saga the son of Sigrlami who was the son of Odin. In the R version, Svafrlami is called Sigrlami and his parentage is not given. Svafrlami was the king of Gardariki and the first owner of the magic sword Tyrfing. One day, he was hunting on his..

Svaha
In Hinduism, Svaha is a minor goddess, wife of Agni. She was originally a nymph but became immortal after marrying Agni, with whom she is the mother of Karttikeya. Whenever fire sacrifices are made, "Svaha" is chanted, as per Agni's order. In Hinduism and Buddhism, "Svaha" (Sanskrit: svāh..

Svaj
Svaj was a DJ café located at Södermalm, Sweden between 2002 and 2005. External links [Svaj homepage]..

Svalbard
Svalbard Official language Norwegian Capital Longyearbyen King Harald V Governor Per Sefland Area - Total Ranked 125th 62 049 km² Population - Total (2004) - Density Ranked 230th2,756 0.04/km² Currency Norwegian krone Time zone ..

Svalbard Airport
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Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Svalbard and Jan Mayen are two separate parts of Norway located in the Arctic Ocean. While Svalbard is an integrated part of Norway it is subject to international traties and has a separate status in international law. It is administered by a governor reporting to the Norwegian Minister of Justice..

Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (also called Norwegian Seed Bank or globalt sikkerhetshvelv for frø på Svalbard) is a "doomsday" seedbank under construction on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote arctic Svalbard archipelago. The government of Norway will fund most of the $3 000 000 co..

Svalbard poppy
The Svalbard poppy (Papaver dahlianum) is a poppy species common on Svalbard, north-eastern Greenland and a small area of northern Norway. It is the symbolic flower of Svalvard. It grows to 10-25 cm high, and has long-petiolated basal leaves forming a rosette; the leaves are pinnately dissec..

Svalbard Treaty
The Treaty concerning Spitsbergen of February 9 1920 placed the arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen (now called Svalbard) as an overseas part of Kingdom of Norway (article 1). However, as part of the compromise with the signatories, despite Norwegian sovereignty not all Norwegian law applies. The trea..

Svalbard Undersea Cable System
Svalbard Undersea Cable System consists of two 1400 km long Submarine communications cables from Harstad to Svalbard via Andøy. Each cable consists of 8 optical fibre pairs. It is operated by Telenor and officially opened 2004-02-01. Its capacity is used by NASA, the United States Department of Def..

Svalia
Svalia is a village in Overhalla municipality, Norway. It is located a few kilometres north of the municipality centre Ranemsletta. Its population in 2003 was 229 , but since 2004 it is not considered an urban settlement by Statistics Norway, and its data is therefore not registered. . References ..

Svaliava
Svaliava (Ukrainian: Свалява, Hungarian: Szolyva) is a city located on the Liatorytsia River in the Zakarpattia Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Svaliavsky Raion (district). See also Carpathian Ruthenia External links [Svaliava] in the &#..

Svalinn
In Norse mythology, Svalinn is a shield which stands before the sun. It is mentioned in Grímnismál. Svalinn heitir, hann stendr sólu fyrir, skjöldr, skínanda goði; björg ok brim, ek veit, at brenna skulu, ef hann fellr í frá. Grímnismál 38, [Guðni Jónsson's edition] Svalin..

Svalöv Municipality
This page deals with both Svalöv Municipality and the urban area (tätort) Svalöv Svalöv Municipality (Kommun) Skåne in SwedenSvalöv in SkåneMap outlining municipalities of Sweden Coat of arms Municipal facts Seat Svalöv [] County Skåne County Province Skåne ..

SvalRak
SvalRak is the name of a launch site for sounding rockets in the neighbourhood of Ny-Ålesund on Spitzbergen at [78°55′53″N, 11°51′01″E]. The launch site SvalRak has been since 1997 in service and very suitable for the launch of rockets for the investigation of the earth's magnet..

Svan
Svan may refer to: The Svan people.The Svan language.The Svaneti region of Georgia.redirect[[Template:Disambig]]..

Svaneti
Svaneti (სვანეთი. Also known as Svanetia or Svania in Russian and Western languages) is a historic province in Georgia, in the northwestern part of the country. It’s inhabited by the Svans (სვანები in Georgian), an ethnographic group of the Georgian people. Contents ..

Svangaskard
Svangaskard is a multi-use stadium in Toftir, Faroe Islands. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 7,000 people. ..

Svanhild
Svanhild was the daughter of Sigurd and Gudrun in the Volsung Cycle. She married Ermanaric (Jörmunrekkr) the king of the Goths, but was accused of infidelity with the king's son, Randver. Because of this Ermanaric had her trampled to death under horses. Her mother would make her half-brothers Ha..

Svante
Svante is a Swedish first name for males. It originates from Slavic ancestors of first prominent Svantes in Sweden. The Slavic languages have the name which is rendered as Svyatopolk in Russian. Also Svjatopluk and so forth in other renditions. In latter half of 13th century, Svantepolk of Skarsho..

Svante, Regent of Sweden
Svante Sture Regency1504 - February 5, 1520 FamilyNatt och Dag ConsortsIliana Gädda Mette Ivarsdotter Dyre PredecessorSten Sture the Elder SuccessorErik Trolle Date of Birth1460 Date of DeathJanuary 2, 1512 Svante Nilsson, (1460 – January 2, 1512) was a Swedish statesman and regent of Swed..

Svantepolk of Skarsholm
Svantepolk Knutsson (died 1310), Lord of Skarsholm, was a Scandinavian magnate. Svantepolk's father was Canute, Duke of Revalia, a bastard son of king Valdemar II of Denmark with a high-born Swedish lady Helena, daughter of Earl Guttorm. His mother had been a Pomeranian lady whose first name and pr..

Svante Arrhenius
Svante August Arrhenius Svante August Arrhenius (February 19, 1859 – October 2, 1927) was a Swedish chemist and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. Arrhenius was born at Vik (also spelled Wik or Wijk), near Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Svante Gustav and Carolina Thu..

Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo is a biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics. He was born in 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden and earned his PhD from Uppsala University in 1986. Since 1997, he has been director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germa..

Svan language
The Svan language (ლუშნუ ნინ, lushnu nin in Svan; სვანური ენა, svanuri ena in Georgian) is a language spoken in Northwest Georgia. Contents 1 Distribution2 History3 Features3.1 Familial features3.2 Distinguishing features4 Dialect..

SVAP Soft
SVAP Soft is a group composed of four ethnic Serb students of the "Dositei Obradovici" high school in Timişoara, Romania. The group participated in several computer programming contests and won many prizes: twice the first place in Romania ("Grigore Moisil" contest, Lugoj; 2004, 2005), once the sec..

Svarabhakti
A svarabhakti is a type of epenthesis, specifically a phonetic or phonological change involving insertion of a vowel to ease pronunciation. Examples: athlete -> ath-e-letemischievous -> mischiev-i-ouswintry -> wint-er-ynuclear -> nuc-u-lar The Greek-based term is anaptyxis. ..

Svarga
In Hinduism, (Sanskrit: स्वर्ग) Svarga (or Swarga) is set of nether worlds located on Mt. Meru. It is a Heaven where the righteous live in paradise before their next reincarnation. Svarga is seen as a transitory place for righteous souls who performed good deeds but whose conduct is not ..

Svarn
Grand Duchy of Lithuania Švarn the Lightning (Shvarno, Švarnas, Ioann) was the Knyaz of Halych, Grand Prince of Lithuania 1268 - 1269, Prince of Chelm 1264 - 1269. He died in 1269 and was buried in Chelm. His mother was Anna Mstislavna of Novgorod (died before 1252) and his father was Dani..

Svarog
In Slavic mythology, Svarog (Polish: Swaróg, Cyrillic: Сварог, Wendish: Schwayxtix) is the Slavic god and spirit of fire; his name means bright and clear. So sacred was the fire that it was forbidden to shout or swear at it while it was being lit. Folklore portrays him as a fire serpent, a wi..

Svarstad
Svarstad is the administrative centre of Lardal municipality, Norway. Its population (2005) is 585. ..

Svartálfaheim
In Norse mythology, Svartálfaheim is the underground domain of the dark-elves. ..

Svartálfar
In Norse mythology, the svartálfar ("black elves") or dökkálfar ("dark elves") are supernatural beings (Old Norse "vættir," wights) that are said to reside in the underground world of Svartálfheim. They, like the trolls, are often corollated with the dvergar ("dwarves") and their home is often ..

Svartån
Svartån (English: black creek) is a name given to a considerable number of Swedish rivers and streams. The longest, in Västmanland, is about 100 kilometers long. It passes through the towns of Skultuna and Västerås and has its outlet in Mälaren. The name Västerås derives from the Sueco-..

Svartelva
Svartelva is a river in Hedmark, Norway. It flows from Løten at Byenga westward into Romedal and is joined by a tributary, the Lageråa. From the point where the Lageråa joins, the river forms the border between Stange and Hamar municipalities, continuing until the outlet at Åkersvika into Mjøsa..

Svarthola
The cave Svarthola (aka. Vistehola) is located in Randaberg, Norway. During the Stone Age it was the main shelter for a group of about 25 people from around 6000 BC. These people were mainly hunter-gatherers, but from around 4000 BC they also started with agriculture. From around 2000 BC, their main..

Svartifoss
Svartifoss, the Black Falls Svartifoss (Black Falls) is a waterfall in Skaftafell National Park in Iceland, and is one of the most popular sights in the park. It is surrounded by dark lava columns, which give rise to its name. The hexagonal columns were formed inside a lava flow which coole..

Svartisen
--> Svartisen is a glacier located in Norway. The system consists of two separate glaciers, the Vestre Svartisen (221 km²), which is the second largest glacier in the country after Jostedalsbreen, and Østre Svartisen (148 km²) which is the countries fourth largest. The glac..

Svartlå
Svartlå, is a small village in the parish of Edefors, Boden municipality, Norrbotten, Sweden. ..

Svartlösa Hundred
Svartlösa Hundred, or Svartlösa härad, was a hundred of Sudermannia in Sweden. ..

Svartrå
Svartrå is a former village and parish in Falkenberg Municipality, Sweden with about 200 citizens. It formed a parish until 2006, when the parish merged with Köinge and Okome parish to form Okome parish. It was a municipality between 1863 and 1951. The name is likely to come from the brook that ..

Svartsoppa
Svartsoppa ("Black soup") is a soup consumed in Skåne with goose blood (or sometimes pig blood) as the main ingredient. It is often eaten before the goose dish at the Mårtens gås or Mårten gås dinner on the 10 November, the eve of Saint Martin (11 November), a surviving remnant of the Roman Cat..

Svatantrika
The Svatantrika Madhyamaka school of Buddhism is a form of Madhyamaka in which reasoning is used to establish that phenomena (dharmas) have no self-nature, and further arguments to establish that the true nature of all phenomena is emptiness. This school differs from the predominant prasangika tradi..

Svatantrya
Svatantrya means liberty, autonomy, spontaneity. Svatantrya represents an important quality for an aspirant yogi. According to Yoga Shika Upanishad, Svatantrya is essential in the obtaining of the extraordinary accomplishments on the spiritual path and the attainment of perfection siddhi. On the ot..

Svati
Svati (pronounced Svātī, with a lengthened 'a' and 'i') is a Nakshatra in Hindu astronomy, that corresponds to the star Arcturus. See also Hindu calendar ..

Svatopluk
Svatopluk (in modern Czech) or Svätopluk (in modern Slovak) can be: a given namethe name of the rulers:*Svatopluk I, king of Great Moravia from 870/871 to 894*Svätopluk II, prince of the Nitrian principality from 894 to (?)906*Svatopluk of Bohemia, ruler of Bohemia from 1107 to 1109Svatopluk Turek..

Svatopluk Čech
Svatopluk Čech (February 21 1846, Ostředek near Benešov – February 23 1908, Prague) was Czech writer, journalist and poet. Čech studied gymnasium in Prague, then law and later worked in journals Květy, Lumír and Světozor. His first poem Husita na Baltu was published in almanac Ruch in 186..

Svatopluk Čech Bridge
Svatopluk Čech Bridge (Most Svatopluka Čecha in Czech) is a bridge over river Vltava (Moldau) in Prague, Czech Republic. Construction of the bridge started in 1905 and finished in 1908. Its length is 169 meters (the shortest one in Prague) and width is 16 meters. The bridge connects Prague dist..

Svatopluk I
Svatopluk (-modern Czech name; modern Slovak name: Svätopluk; Old Slavic Свѧтопълкъ; reconstructed name: Sventopluk; some names in Latin texts: Suentopolcus, Zventopluk, Suatopluk, Zwentibald) (around 830 - 894) from the Mojmírs dynasty was the prince of the Principality of Nitra (850'..

Svatopluk of Bohemia
Svatopluk the Lion (died 21 September 1109) was the duke of Bohemia from 1107 to his assassination. He was a son of Otto I of Olomouc and Euphemia of Hungary and grandson of Bretislaus I of Bohemia. Duke of Olomouc since 1091, he was at enmity with his cousin Borivoj II, whom he sought to drive ou..

Svatopluk Pluskal
Svatopluk Pluskal (28 October 1930, Zlín – 29 May 2005, Ústí nad Labem) was a Czechoslovak footballer and holder of a silver medal from the World Cup in Chile in 1962. Contents 1 Early Life2 Pre-International Career3 International Career4 Late life5 Notes Earl..

Svatopluk Turek
Svatopluk Turek (October 25 1900, Hodslavice – December 30 1972 Zlín) was a Czech novelist, known under pen name T. Svatopluk. After studying arts at the university he worked as graphics designer in Baťa company in Zlín. He is most know for his book Botostroj (The Shoe Machine) where he de..

Svat Soucek
Dr. Svat Soucek is a compiler and author of works in relation to Central Asia, and Central Asian studies and works in the oriental division of the New York Public Library. His works include Turkish Mapmaking After Columbus and A history of Inner Asia. ..

Svava Jakobsdóttir
Svava Jakobsdóttir (born 1930) is one of Iceland's leading short story writers. She is also a playwright, and her work tends toward realism. She won the Henrik Steffens Prize in 1997. External links [Site on Icelandic writers] ..

Svay Pak
Svay Pak is a red light district located about 11km north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It was famous in the 1980's and 1990's for child prostitution but has closed since, due to the pressure of various child protection NGOs in Cambodia. ..

Svay Rieng
Svay Riengស្វាយរៀង Statistics Area: 2,966 km² Inhabitants: 478,252 (1998) Pop. density: 161.2 inh./km² ISO 3166-2: KH-20 Map Svay Rieng is a province in the southeast of Cambodia. Its capital is Svay Rieng. The province is su..

SVAZARM
SVAZARM or Union for Cooperation with the Army (Czech: Svaz pro spolupráci s armádou / SVAZARM, Slovak: Zväz pre spoluprácu s armádou / ZVÄZARM), was, in Communist Czechoslovakia, the largest "paramilitary" organisation, though in fact many of the activities that SVAZARM provided for its membe..

Sva Bol Svijeta
Sva Bol Svijeta (English translation: "All The Pain In The World") was the Bosnia and Herzegovinian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993, performed in Bosnian by Fazla. The song was performed eighteenth on the night (following Finland's Katri Helena with Tule Luo and preceding the United Kingdo..

SVA Group
SVA Group is a Chinese electronics manufacturer established in 1995. The company is also a provider of network and information services. Overseas, SVA Group has branches in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Pakistan, South Africa and the United States. The company's motto is "Yours needs..

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