Attala (other)
Attala may refer to: * Saint Attala (6th century CE - 627) * Attala County, Mississippi, USA * USS Attala (APA-130), ship * Attala, Hungary, village See also * Atala (other) * Atalla (other) * Attalla, Alabama Attalla is a city in Etowah County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 6,048. History The town occupies the site of an Indian village which was of considerable importance during the Creek War. It was in Attalla ..., USA * Attla (other) {{disambig ...
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Saint Attala
Atala or Attala (died 622) was a disciple of Columbanus and his successor as abbot of Bobbio from 615. Attala was originally from Burgundy, and first became a monk at the abbey of Lérins. Displeased with the loose discipline prevailing there, he instead entered the abbey of Luxeuil, which had just been founded by Columbanus. When the latter was expelled from Luxeuil by King Theuderic II, Attala would have succeeded him as abbot, but preferred to follow him into exile. They settled on the banks of the river Trebbia, a little northeast of Genoa, where they together founded Bobbio. After the Columbanus' death in 615, Attala succeeded him as abbot. He and his monks suffered many hardships at the hands of King Arioald, who was an Arian and not a Catholic. As abbot, Attala insisted on strict discipline and when a large number of his monks rebelled, declaring his discipline too rigorous, he permitted them to leave the monastery. According to Attala's biographer, Jonas, when some of the ...
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Attala County, Mississippi
Attala County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,564. Its county seat is Kosciusko. Attala County is named for Atala, a fictional Native American heroine from an early-19th-century novel of the same name by François-René de Chateaubriand. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.2%) is water. It is bound by the Big Black River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, in the west. Major roads * Mississippi Highway 12 * Mississippi Highway 14 * Mississippi Highway 19 * Mississippi Highway 35 * Mississippi Highway 43 * Natchez Trace Parkway Adjacent counties * Montgomery County (north) * Choctaw County (northeast) * Winston County (east) * Leake County (south) * Madison County (southwest) * Holmes County (west) * Carroll County (northwest) National protected area * Natchez Trace Parkway (part) Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 ...
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USS Attala (APA-130)
USS ''Attala'' (APA-130) was a ''Haskell''-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1974. History ''Attala'' was of the VC2-S-AP5 Victory ship design type was named for Attala County, Mississippi. She was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 46) on 18 July 1944 at Wilmington, California, by the California Shipbuilding Corporation; launched on 27 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Paul Pigott; and simultaneously acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 30 November 1944. After shakedown training along the west coast, the attack transport departed Seattle, Washington, on 31 January 1945. She paused at Pearl Harbor to embark troops and equipment and then got underway on 9 February, bound for Eniwetok. ''Attala'' pushed on to Iwo Jima, where she arrived on 13 March. The ship spent several days there disembarking troops and unloading equipment. On the 18th, ''Attala'' moored at Saipan to take on wounded ...
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Attala, Hungary
Attala is a village in Tolna County, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a .... Etymology According to the local legends the name comes from the name of the mistress of ''Sülledvár''. Her name could be ''Atala''. She committed blasphemy as the legend says and her castle sank into the ground. There was indeed a castle during the Roman times. The accepted theory states that the name could came from the person name ''Attila''. History According to ''László Szita'' the settlement was completely Hungarian in the 18th century. References External links Street map Populated places in Tolna County {{Tolna-geo-stub ...
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Atala (other)
Atala may refer to: * 152 Atala, an asteroid * Atala (company), an Italian manufacturer of bicycles ** Atala (cycling team), sponsored by the bicycle manufacturer * Atala (district), a district in Tampere, Finland * ''Atala'' (novella), a novella by François-René de Chateaubriand *Atala, Dominican Republic * ''Eumaeus atala'', a species of butterfly * Atala, fictional training master in ''The Hunger Games'' trilogy by Suzanne Collins * Saint Attala, also known as Abbot Atala, medieval monk of Bobbio (died 622) * Atala, pen name of poet Léonise Valois (1868–1936) See also * Attala (other) * Atalla (other) * Atallah (other) * Atila (other) * Atula Athula (IAST: Atula) was a Sanskrit-language poet from the Mushika Kingdom in present-day Kerala, India. He composed the ''Mushika-vamsa'', a mahakavya Mahākāvya (lit. great kāvya, court epic), also known as ''sargabandha'', is a genre of Indian ...

Atalla (other)
Atalla may refer to: *Mohamed M. Atalla, Egyptian-American semiconductor and cybersecurity pioneer, also known by the alias "John" or "Martin" M. Atalla *Utimaco Atalla, Information Protection and Control Suite (data security software) company, founded by Mohamed Atalla *Ash Atalla, a British television producer *Andrew Atalla, the British founder of online marketing agency atom42 *The former name of Epworth, Georgia See also *Attala (other) Attala may refer to: * Saint Attala (6th century CE - 627) * Attala County, Mississippi, USA * USS Attala (APA-130), ship * Attala, Hungary, village See also * Atala (other) * Atalla (other) * Attalla, Alabama Attalla is a ...

Attalla, Alabama
Attalla is a city in Etowah County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 6,048. History The town occupies the site of an Indian village which was of considerable importance during the Creek War. It was in Attalla that David Brown, a Cherokee assisted by the Rev. D. S. Butterick, prepared the ''Cherokee Spelling Book.'' Attalla was not founded until 1870, on land donated by W. C. Hammond, a plantation owner. It was incorporated as a city government on February 5, 1872. The town was officially named "Attalla" in 1893, from the Cherokee language word meaning "mountain". Attalla was prosperous until the railroads that it depended on went into bankruptcy. Attalla is the site of the first hydroelectric dam to provide electricity for a city, constructed in 1887. 20th century to present William Lewis Moore, a U.S. postman and white civil rights activist, was murdered here on April 23, 1963 as he tried to walk from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Jackson, Mi ...
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