Mansa may refer to:
Places
In India
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Mansa, Gujarat
Mansa is a town with municipality and former princely state, in Gandhinagar district in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
History
During the British raj, Mansa was a Third class non-salute state under the Mahi Kantha Agency. It ceased to ...
, a town in northern Gujarat, Western India; the capital of:
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Mansa, Gujarat Assembly constituency
Mansa is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Gandhinagar district and it came into existence after 2008 delimitation.
List of segments
This assembly seat represents the following segmen ...
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Mansa State
Mansa is a town with municipality and former princely state, in Gandhinagar district in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
History
During the British raj, Mansa was a Third class non-salute state under the Mahi Kantha Agency. It ceased to ...
, a princely state under the Mahi Kantha Agency in India
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Mansa district, Punjab
Mansa district is a district in the state of Punjab, India. The district headquarters is Mansa city. Mansa district was formed on 13 April 1992 from the erst while district of Bathinda. The district has three tehsils: Mansa, Budhlada and Sardu ...
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Mansa, Punjab
Mansa is a city and municipal council in Mansa district of Punjab, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Mansa district and is situated on the Bathinda-Jind-Delhi railway line and also on the Barnala-Sardulgarh-Sirsa state highway.
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, the main town in the Indian district
Elsewhere
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Mansa District, Zambia, a district of Luapula province, Zambia
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Mansa, Zambia
Mansa is the capital of the Luapula Province of Zambia, and headquarters of Mansa District. It takes its name from the local Chief Mansa and the small Mansa River which flows west to the Luapula River. During British rule the city was named ' ...
, capital of the Luapula province
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Mansa Cove
Mansa Cove is the cove indenting for the east coast of the small () ice-free promontory forming the north extremity of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and ending up in Cape Shirref ...
, Antarctica
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Barra Mansa
Barra Mansa is a Brazilian municipality located in the south of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
It is in the microregion of the Paraíba Valley, within the mesoregion of the South Fluminense. It is located at latitude 22º32'39 "south, longitude 44 ...
, Brazil
Religion
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Manasa
Manasa () is a Hindu goddess of snakes. She is worshipped mainly in Bihar, Bengal, Jharkhand, Lower Assam and other parts of northeastern India and in Uttarakhand, chiefly for the prevention and cure of snakebite, and also for fertility and pr ...
Devi, a Hindu goddess, an incarnation of the goddess Durga
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Mata Mansa Devi Mandir
Mata Mansa Devi is a Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Mansa Devi, a form of Shakti, in the Panchkula district of the Indian state of Haryana. The temple complex is spread of of the Shivalik foothills in the village of Bilaspur, near Secto ...
, a temple in Panchkula district, Haryana, India
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Mansa Devi Temple, Haridwar
Mansa Devi Temple, Haridwar (Hindi: मंसा देवी मंदिर, हरिद्वार) is a Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Mansa Devi in the holy city of Haridwar in the Uttarakhand state of India. The temple is located at ...
, a temple in the state of Uttarakhand, India
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Mansa
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mansa ( la, Mansaën(sis)) is a suffragan diocese in the city of Mansa in the ecclesiastical province of Kasama in Zambia.
History
* July 10, 1952: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Fort Rosebery from the A ...
, Zambia
People
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Johan Ludvig Mansa
Johan Ludvig Mansa (April 10, 1740 – April 13, 1820), was a German-Danish landscape gardener, born April 10, 1740 in Zweibrücken, Germany, where his father was palace gardener. In 1765 he went to Denmark and was gardener at Fuglsang Manor, Lolla ...
(1740–1820), German-Danish landscape gardener
* Mansa Devi, wife of
Guru Amar Das
Guru Amar Das (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਅਮਰ ਦਾਸ, pronunciation: ; 5 May 1479 – 1 September 1574), sometimes spelled as Guru Amardas, was the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552 at age 73.
Befor ...
(1479–1574), the third Sikh Guru
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Mansa Ram
Mansa Ram is an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress. Mansa Ram was a member of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Karsog constituency in Mandi district
Mandi district is one of the central districts ...
, Indian politician
Other uses
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MANSA Mansa may refer to:
Places In India
* Mansa, Gujarat, a town in northern Gujarat, Western India; the capital of:
** Mansa, Gujarat Assembly constituency
** Mansa State, a princely state under the Mahi Kantha Agency in India
* Mansa district, ...
, a quality-of-life assessment tool
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Mansa (title)
''Mansa'' ( ''mansaw'') is a Maninka and Mandinka word for a ruler, generally translated as "king". It is particularly known as the title of the rulers of the Mali Empire, such as Mansa Musa, and in this context is sometimes translated as "e ...
, held by rulers of the ancient Malian Empire
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''Mansa'' (wasp), a genus of wasps in the tribe
Aptesini
See also
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Mansar (disambiguation) Mansar can refer to:
* Mansar, Pakistan, town in Punjab, Pakistan
* Mansar, India, a town in Maharashtra
* Mansar Lake
Mansar Lake is a lake located from the city of Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is fringed by forest-covered hills, ...
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