Asta

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Asta may refer to:

In organizations:

• Arkansas Science & Technology Authority
• American Sail Training Association
• American Scouting Traders Association, a former name of the International Scouting Collectors Association
• American Seed Trade Association
• American Society of Travel Agents
• American String Teachers Association
• Association of Secondary Ticket Agents, a regulatory board in the United Kingdom
• AStA, the external representing agency of the student body at universities in most German states
• ASTA Medica Onkologie, a pharmaceutical company acquired by Baxter International
• Association of Short-Circuit Testing Authorities, an electrical testing organization founded in 1938.
• ASTA-BEAB, a conformance mark

In other uses:

• Asta (air base), a former Soviet Air Force base in Estonia
• Åsta, a village in Norway
• Asta (moth)
• 1041 Asta, an asteroid
• ST Asta, a tugboat
• Battle of Pollentia or Battle of Asta, a battle between the Romans and the Visigoths in 402 near Asti, Italy
• American Spice Trade Association, creators of the ASTA pungency unit of pepper hotness
• Loch of Asta, a lake near Tingwall, Shetland in Scotland
• Asta, a fictional dog played by Skippy (dog) in the Thin Man films

People with the name

• Antonino Asta (born 1970), Italian former football player
• Asta Backman (born 1917), Finnish actress
• Asta Hansen (1914-1962), Danish actress
• Asta Nielsen (1881-1972), Danish actress, star of German silent films
• Asta Philpot (born 1982), advocate of sex lives for disabled people
• Tony Asta, guitarist for Michigan heavy metal band Battlecross
• Asta (musician), Tasmanian singer/songwriter

See also

• Andrea dell'Asta (c. 1673-1721), Italian late-Baroque painter
• Astah*, a UML modeling tool
• Astesanus de Ast or Astesanus ab Asta (d 1330), Franciscan lawyer and theologian
• Asti
• Hasta (disambiguation)