Sylvania
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Sylvania literally means 'forest land' in Latin. It is used to mean several different things:
- Sylvania is the name of several places in the United States of America and elsewhere:
- *Sylvania, Alabama, USA
- *Sylvania, Georgia, USA
- *Sylvania, Ohio, USA
- *Sylvania Wilderness is a Federal Wilderness Area in Michigan
- *Pennsylvania is a US state whose name means Penn's Woods.
- *Sylvania, New South Wales and Sylvania Waters, New South Wales, suburbs of Sydney, Australia
- Sylvania Waters is the name of a 1992 Australian reality television show.
- Sylvania is the name of a company manufacturing electrical devices; once a subsidiary of General Telephone and Electronics, it now is a subsidiary of the German company Osram, itself a subsidiary of Siemens AG (SI-NYSE).
- Sylvania is a fictional country from the movie Duck Soup.
- Sylvania is the fictional home to the Sylvanian Families toy line.
- Sylvania is the name of an imperial province infested with vampires in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game.
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