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Albina, Suriname Albina is a town in eastern Suriname, and is capital of the Marowijne District. The town lies on the west bank of the Marowijne river (Maroni river), which forms the border with French Guiana, directly opposite the French Guianan town of Saint-La ...
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Albina, Oregon Albina is a historical American city that was consolidated into Portland, Oregon in 1891. The land the City of Albina would later be built on was claimed by J.L. Losing and Joseph Delay under the U.S. Donation Land Claim Act of 1850. The land wa ...
, a city annexed by Portland, Oregon, US * Albina, Brăila, a village in Tichilești Commune, Brăila County, Romania * Albina, Timiș, a village in Moșnița Nouă Commune, Timiș County, Romania * Albina, Vaslui, a village in Ivănești Commune, Vaslui County, Romania * Albina, Cimişlia, a commune in Raionul Cimişlia, Moldova


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Albina (given name) Albina (''ahl-BEE-nah'') is a feminine given name from the Roman cognate ''Albinus'', derived from the Latin ''albus'', meaning "white" or "bright". There are masculine variants including ''Albin'' in Kosovo, Poland, Scandinavia, and Slovenia; ...
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Albina (mythology) Albina or The White Goddess is a goddess (possibly Etruscan) associated with the dawn and the founding of Great Britain. ''"The White Goddess"'' Robert Graves' essay ''"The White Goddess"'' describes Albina as of one of fifty sisters (see Da ...
, a figure in Etruscan mythology * Albina, legendary ancestor of the giants of
Albion Albion is an alternative name for Great Britain. The oldest attestation of the toponym comes from the Greek language. It is sometimes used poetically and generally to refer to the island, but is less common than 'Britain' today. The name for Scot ...
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Saint Albina The name Albina comes from Albina, "the White Goddess," the Etruscan goddess of the dawn and protector of ill-fated lovers. It was a common name in ancient Rome. According to Nennius, Britain gains its earliest name, Albion from Albina, the W ...


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Russian space dogs During the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet space program used dogs for sub-orbital and orbital space flights to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. In this period, the Soviet Union launched missions with passenger slots for at le ...
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Albina Românească ''Albina Românească'' ("The Romanian Bee") was a Romanian-language bi-weekly political and literary magazine, printed in Iaşi, Moldavia, at two intervals during the ''Regulamentul Organic'' period (between June 1, 1829, and January 3, 1835 ...
'', Romanian-language bi-weekly political and literary magazine, printed in Iaşi, Moldavia * Appias albina, butterfly found in India {{disambiguation, geo