Silla (disambiguation)
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Silla (sɪʎɐ) can mean "chair" in Spanish.
Silla can refer to:
[edit] Arts and religion
- Lucio Silla, a Mozart opera
- Silap Inua, a deity in Inuit mythology
- The biblical Tselah or Zillah (צִלָּה), one of Lamech's wives
- A character in Barnabe Riche's History of Apolonius and Silla in his Farewell to Military Profession (1581)
[edit] People
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla (died 78 BC), Roman general and dictator
- Felix Silla (born 1937), former Italian stuntman and actor
- One of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's sons bore the given name Silla
[edit] Places
- The ancient Korean kingdom of Silla
- Silla, Valencia, a town in Spain.
- Various elevations named after the Spanish word silla meaning “saddle”:
- The Cerro de la Silla 1,820 m (5,971 ft) to the east of Monterrey (Mexico)
- La Silla, the location of the La Silla Observatory
- Silla de Paita, a hill near the northern Peruvian sea port Paita
- A hill on Cuba overlooking Gibara
- Silla de Caracas, twin hills near the Venezolan capital
- Silla de Torrellas, a peak on Mallorca
- Silla, Mali, a village on the Niger, 130 km (80 mi) south from Ségou