Astoria is a placename, ultimately named for businessman
John Jacob Astor (1763–1848), in the 1840s the wealthiest person in the United States and, as a hotel name, his great-grandson
William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919).
The name was first used for
Fort Astoria, built in 1811 at the mouth of the Columbia River (in what is now Oregon) for John Jacob Astor's
Pacific Fur Company.
Places
United States
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Astoria, Illinois (1837)
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Astoria Township, Fulton County, Illinois
Astoria Township is one of twenty-six townships in Fulton County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,464 and it contained 665 housing units.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of wh ...
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Astoria, Missouri (1844)
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Astoria, Queens, neighborhood in New York City (1839)
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Astoria, Oregon
Astoria is a port city and the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the state and was the first permanent American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. The county is the northwest corne ...
, named for
Fort Astoria (1811)
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Astoria, South Dakota
Astoria is a town in Deuel County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 132 at the 2020 census.
History
Astoria was platted in 1900. The town was named after Astoria, Oregon. A post office has been in operation at Astoria since 1900.
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(1900, named for Astoria, Oregon)
Other places
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Astoria, Budapest, a major junction in central Budapest, named after the Astoria Grand Hotel at its corner
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Astoria (Budapest Metro)
Astoria is a station of the M2 (East-West) line of the Budapest Metro, under the eponymous square, Astoria. The station was renovated in 2003–4. It was open on 2 April 1970 as part of the inaugural section of Line M2, between Deák Ferenc té ...
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Astoria Boulevard
Astoria Boulevard is an important east-west commercial street in Astoria and East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. It runs from 1st Street at the East River to the World's Fair Marina on Flushing Bay, where it merges with Northern Boulevard. Jus ...
, a boulevard in New York City
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Astoria Boulevard (BMT Astoria Line), a subway stop along the boulevard
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Astoria Canyon, a submarine abyss near the mouth of the Columbia River
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Astoria Park, a park located in Queens, New York.
Art, entertainment, and media
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''Astoria'' (book), an 1836 account of the founding of Astoria, Oregon by Washington Irving
Fictional entities
* the wife of ''Muppet Show'' character
Waldorf
* Astoria Greengrass, a minor
character in the ''Harry Potter'' series
* a cartoon character from Dave Sim's ''
Cerebus the Aardvark''
* a country in
Jura Soyfer's play ''Astoria''
Music
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''Astoria'' (Tony Bennett album) 1990
* ''Astoria'', a 2006 album by
The Shys
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''Astoria'' (Marianas Trench album) 2015
Edifices and enterprises
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Astoria, Amsterdam
Astoria is a Jugendstil office building at Keizersgracht 174-176 in Amsterdam, built in 1904-1905 as the headquarters of the Eerste Hollandsche Levensverzekerings Bank insurance company. The building, at the intersection of the Keizersgracht an ...
, a Jugendstil Office building in Amsterdam
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Astoria, Stockholm, a cinema in Stockholm, Sweden
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Astoria Theatre, Brighton
The Astoria Theatre was a former cinema in Brighton, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. Built in 1933 in the Art Deco style for a local entertainment magnate who opened one of Brighton's first cinemas many years earlier, it w ...
, a theatre in Brighton, England
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Coast Guard Air Station Astoria, a U.S. Coast Guard facility in Astoria, Oregon
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Fort Astoria, an historic fur trading station located in modern Astoria, Oregon
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London Astoria, a former music venue
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Kaufman Astoria Studios, a film and television studio in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York City
Hotels
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Hotel Astoria (Copenhagen), Denmark
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Hotel Astoria (Saint Petersburg), Russia
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Waldorf–Astoria (disambiguation)
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Danubius Hotel Astoria (Budapest), Hungary (1914)
Sports
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Astoria Bydgoszcz, a sport association and basketball team in Bydgoszcz, Poland, established in 1924
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FC Astoria Walldorf, a German association football club from the town of Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg
Vessels
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MS ''Astoria'', a cruise ship laid up in Eleusis Bay, Greece
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MV ''Astoria'', a 1946 cruise ship of Brock Pierce
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USS ''Astoria'', several U.S. Navy vessels
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Astoria (recording studio), David Gilmour's recording studio/houseboat
Other uses
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Astoria River
The Astoria River is a short river in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. It is an early tributary of the Athabasca River.
The Astoria forms in the Tonquin Valley, collecting meltwater from the Fraser Glacier, The Ramparts, Mount Erebus, M ...
, in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
* "Astoria", a codename for
ADO.NET Data Services
WCF Data Services (formerly ADO.NET Data Services, codename "Astoria") is a platform for what Microsoft calls ''Data Services''. It is actually a combination of the runtime and a web service through which the services are exposed. It also includ ...
See also
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