Vasa

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Vasa may refer to:

• House of Vasa, a medieval Swedish noble family, the royal house of Sweden 1523-1654 and of Poland 1587-1668
  • Vasa (ship), a Swedish warship that sank in 1628, since restored
  • Vasa Museum, Stockholm, where the restored ship is currently displayed
  • Order of Vasa, one of the Royal Swedish orders of knighthood
  • Vasa Order of America, a Swedish-American Fraternal Order

In places:

• Väsa, a village in Dalarna, Sweden
• Vasa County, a historic county in current Finland
• Vasa Park, New Jersey
• Vasa Township, Minnesota
• Vasa Loch, a brackish lagoon in southwestern Shapinsay, Orkney Islands

In anatomy:

• Vasa nervorum, small arteries that provide blood supply to peripheral nerves
• Vasa praevia, an obstetric complication
• Vasa recta, capillaries within the kidneys
• Vasa recta (intestines), capillaries surrounding the intestines
• Vasa vasorum, capillaries that supply the outer tissues of large blood vessels

In other uses:

• Vása, the sun in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional cosmology
• Vasa IFK, a Finnish football club
• Vasa parrot, a genus of parrots from Madagascar
• Vasaloppet, a Swedish ski race

[edit] People with the name Vasa

• Robert F. Vasa (born 1951), Bishop of Baker
• Vasa Mihich (born 1933), American artist
• Vasa Mijić (born 1973), Serbian volleyball player
• Gustavus Vasa Fox (1821–1883), U.S. Naval officer during the American Civil War

[edit] See also

• Vaasa, a city on the west coast of Finland
• Wasa (disambiguation)