Aba may refer to:
Animals
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Aba'', a species of fish native to Africa
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Aba roundleaf bat, a West African bat species
Geographic toponyms
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Aba, historic region surrounding Damascus
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Aba (Russia), a river in Kemerovo Oblast
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Aba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Aba is a city in the northeast of the Haut-Uélé province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; it is near the border with South Sudan
South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), officially the Republic of South Sudan ( din, Paankɔc Cuën ...
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Aba, Hungary
Aba is a town in Fejér County, Hungary.
In 1559, it was the property of Mihály Cseszneky and Balázs Baranyai.
Notable residents
* Imre Taussig (1894–1945), footballer
Demographics
Sources
* Szíj Rezső: Várpalota
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Aba, Nigeria
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Aba, Okayama
was a village located in the north of Tomata District, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, sharing a border with Tottori Prefecture.
As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 669 and a population density of 15.90 persons per km2. The total ...
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Aba, Sichuan
Ngawa or Aba town ( Burmese: ငါဝမြို့, Standard Tibetan: Ngawa) is the seat of Ngawa (Aba) County, within the Ngawa (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Sichuan, China. It is located on the Tibetan p ...
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Aba County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, China
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Aba Island, on the White Nile river, Sudan
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Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, China
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Aba River (Nigeria)
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Anglican Province of Aba, Nigeria
People
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Aba (family), a clan in Hungary
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Aba, ruler of Olba
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Aba Andam
Professor Aba A. Bentil Andam (born 1948) is a Ghanaian particle physicist who was President of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences from 2017–2019. She is the first Ghanaian female physicist.
Early life and education
Aba A. Bentil Andam was ...
, Ghanaian physicist
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Aba Bayefsky
Aba Bayefsky (April 7, 1923 – May 5, 2001) was an artist and teacher.
Career
Bayefsky was born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario, the second son of a Russian-born father and a Scottish-born mother. He studied at the Central Technical ...
, Canadian artist and teacher
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Aba Cercato
Aba Cercato (born 1 May 1939) is an Italian former television presenter and announcer.
Life and career
Born in Bologna, Cercato joined RAI in 1959 as announcer.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano ...
, Italian television presenter
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Aba people, a clan of the Shor in Russia
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Johnny Aba
Johnny Aba (born 3 March 1956) is a Papua New Guinean professional feather/ super feather/lightweight boxer of the 1970s and 1980s who won the Papua New Guinea featherweight title, Papua New Guinea lightweight title, and Commonwealth super feat ...
(born 1956), a Papua New Guinean boxer
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Mar Aba (disambiguation)
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Samuel Aba
Samuel Aba ( hu, Aba Sámuel; before 990 or 1009 – 5 July 1044) reigned as King of Hungary between 1041 and 1044. He was born to a prominent family with extensive domains in the region of the Mátra Hills. Based on reports in the ''Gesta ...
, 11th-century King of Hungary
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Vilmos Aba-Novák
Vilmos Aba-Novák ( hu, Aba- Novák Vilmos, until 1912: hu, Novák Vilmos; March 15, 1894 – September 29, 1941 , a Hungarian painter
Other uses
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Aba (''Dune''), a robe in the fictional ''Dune'' universe
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''Aba'' (film), a 2008 Sri Lanka film
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Aba (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Aba () was a Thracian naiad nymph from the town of Ergisce in Ciconia. She became the mother by Poseidon, of a son Ergiscus after whom Çatalca
Çatalca (Metrae; ) is a city and a rural district in Istanbul, Turkey. It is t ...
, Thracian naiad nymph in Greek mythology
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Aba Women's War
The Women's War, or Aba Women's Protest (Igbo: ''Ogu Umunwanyi''; Ibibio: ''Ekong Iban''), was a period of unrest in colonial Nigeria over November 1929. The protests broke out when thousands of Igbo women from the Bende District, Umuahia and o ...
, period of unrest in colonial Nigeria
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Aba
:''There is also a Bishop and Diocese of Aba in the Church of Nigeria Province of Aba.''
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Aba takes its name from the major commercial city of Aba in Abia State. Aba Diocese was created from Umuahia Diocese on A ...
, Nigeria
* A short form of
Abaya, a middle eastern robe
See also
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Abaá
An abaá or abahá (from the Fang language, ''abáá'' 'house of the word') is a longhouse located in cities and towns of Equatorial Guinea, especially those of the Fang ethnic group. The abaá has an official, religious and leisure function; In it ...
, a Fang longhouse
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Abba (disambiguation)
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Abas (disambiguation) Abas or ABAS may refer to:
People
*Abas (sophist), an ancient Greek sophist and rhetorician
*Abas, the ancient writer of a work entitled ''Troia'' from which Maurus Servius Honoratus (''ad Aen.'' ix. 264) has preserved a fragment
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Ab (Semitic)
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