Althaea is the Latin rendering of Greek ''Althaia'', which may be related to Greek ''althos'' "healing". It may refer to:
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Althaea (mythology)
Althaea or Althea (; Ancient Greek: Ἀλθαία ''Althaía'' "healer" from ἀλθαίνω ''althaino'', "to cure", also "a kind of mallow") was the queen of Calydon in Greek mythology.
Family
Althaea was the daughter of King ThestiusAntoni ...
, the daughter of Thestius and mother of Meleager
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''Althaea'' (plant), a genus of up to a dozen species of perennial herbs, native to Europe and western Asia, that includes the marshmallow plant
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119 Althaea
Althaea ( minor planet designation: 119 Althaea) is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Canadian-American astronomer J. C. Watson on April 3, 1872, and named after Althaea, the mother of Meleager in Greek mythology. Two occultations by ...
, an asteroid
*Althaea, the name of several
nymph
A nymph ( grc, νύμφη, nýmphē, el, script=Latn, nímfi, label=Modern Greek; , ) in ancient Greek folklore is a minor female nature deity. Different from Greek goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as personifications of nature, are ty ...
s in Greek mythology
*"Shrub Althea", "Shrub Althaea" and "Rose of Althea" are names applied to
Hibiscus syriacus
''Hibiscus syriacus'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is native to Korea, and south-central and southeast China, but widely introduced elsewhere, including much of Asia. It was given the epithet ''syriacus'' b ...
, which is South Korea's national flower
Althea, an English variation of the Greek name, may refer to:
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Althea, a female first name
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Althea, Missouri Althea is an extinct town in eastern Ozark County, in the Ozarks of southern Missouri, United States. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. The location is on the North Fork River at the crossing of Missouri Route H
A supplemental route is ...
, a ghost town in the US
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Althea Racing
Althea Racing is a motorcycle racing team based in Civita Castellana, Italy. For 2019, two versions of the team operate within the World Superbike Championship, as Moriwaki Althea Honda Team having two riders in conjunction with HRC,[EUFOR Althea
Operation Althea, formally the European Union Force Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUFOR), is a military deployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina to oversee the military implementation of the Dayton Agreement. It is the successor to NATO's SFOR and IFOR. T ...]
, a European Union military operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
*"Althea", a
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock music, rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, Folk music, folk, country music, country, jazz, bluegrass music, bluegrass, ...
song
*Althea, a fictional pulsar from the science-fiction novel
''The Hercules Text'' by Jack McDevitt
*, a merchantman launched in 1802 at Calcutta that was wrecked in 1812
*U.S. Navy ships of the name include:
**, a collier that served during the 1862
**, a tugboat that served during the Civil War
**, a motorboat built in 1907
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Althea (mesh network software)
Althea ( ang, Alþea) is an English female given name. It is a variation of the Greek name '' Althaea'' (Αλθαια), which may be related to Greek ''althos'' ("healing").
Richard Lovelace used the name in a poem (" To Althea, from Prison") ...
, a
mesh networking
A mesh network is a local area network topology in which the infrastructure nodes (i.e. bridges, switches, and other infrastructure devices) connect directly, dynamically and non-hierarchically to as many other nodes as possible and cooperate wit ...
Linux software distribution based on OpenWRT
Altea, a Spanish variation of the Greek name, may refer to:
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Altea
Altea (, ) is a city and municipality located in the Valencian Community, Spain, on the section of Mediterranean coast called the Costa Blanca.
At present, the economy of Altea is based on tourism, which started to grow in the 1950s because of i ...
, a town in Spain
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