Vasa

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Vasa may refer to:

• The House of Vasa (older Swedish spelling Wasa, Polish Waza), a family of the medieval Swedish nobility, which was the royal house of Sweden 1523-1654 and of Poland 1587-1668. The dynasty took its name after a heraldic charge, usually referred to as the Vase. A number of other things called "Vasa" or "Wasa" have been named after this dynasty.
• Vasa Order of America, a Swedish-American Fraternal Order, with local lodges in Sweden, Canada and the United States of America.
• Vasa, the Swedish name of a city in Finland known in Finnish as Vaasa
• Vasa County, a historic county in current Finland
• The Regalskeppet Vasa, a Swedish galleon that sank in 1628, since restored and displayed at the Vasa Museum
• Wasa, a brandname used by the Swedish crisp bread producer AB Wasabröd
• The Vasaloppet or "Vasa race", an annual long distance cross-country ski race
• The Order of Vasa, one of the Royal Swedish orders of knighthood
• Vasa Township, Minnesota
• Vasa parrot, an unusual black feathered Genus of parrots found only on Madagascar
• Robert F. Vasa, Bishop of Baker
• Vasa Mihich, Artist
• Vasa D. Mihailovich, a writer, poet, and noted bibliographer of South Slavic literature, is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.[1]
• Vasa Murrhina, is the name of a glassware made by the Vasa Murrhina Art Glass Company of Sandwich, Massachusetts, about 1884. [2]
• Gustavus Vasa Fox, Asst. Sec. Navy during American Civil War [3]
• Vasa _____, in medical journals talking about certain veins, arteries and ducts. (somebody with more specific knowledge please revise definition)

[edit] See also

• Wasa