Sylvania
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Sylvania literally means "forest land" in Latin. It is used to mean several different things:
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[edit] Companies
- Osram Sylvania, North American lighting company started in Emporium, Pennsylvania in 1924
[edit] Places
[edit] Canada
- Sylvania, Saskatchewan, an urban community in the Rural Municipality of Tisdale No. 427, Saskatchewan
[edit] United States
- Sylvania, Alabama
- Sylvania, Georgia
- Sylvania, Ohio
- Sylvania, an extinct volcano on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon; a campus of Portland Community College is located there
- Sylvania Wilderness, a Federal Wilderness Area in Michigan
- Pennsylvania, a U.S. state whose name means William Penn's woods
[edit] Australia
[edit] Romania
- Transylvania, a region of Romania, and home of the fictional vampire Count Dracula
[edit] Entertainment
- Sylvania Waters, a 1992 Australian reality television show
- Sylvania, a fictional country from the movie Duck Soup
- Sylvania, the fictional home to the Sylvanian Families toy line
- Sylvania, an imperial province infested with vampires in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game
[edit] See also
- The derived name, Sylvester
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