Saar or SAAR has several meanings:
People
Given name
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Saar Boubacar (born 1951), Senegalese professional football player
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Saar Ganor
Saar Ganor is an Israeli archaeologist. He was the director, along with Yosef Garfinkel, of excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, thought to be Biblical Sha'arayim. He is inspector for the Israel Antiquities Authority
The Israel Antiquities Autho ...
, Israeli archaeologist
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Saar Klein
Saar Klein ( he, סער קליין; born 1967) is an Israeli-American film editor and director, who has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for '' The Thin Red Line'' and for ''Almost Famous'', and who received an ACE Edd ...
(born 1967), American film editor
Surname
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Ain Saar (born 1968), Estonian (Võro) punk rocker and freedom fighter
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Alison Saar
Alison Saar (born February 5, 1956) is a Los Angeles, California based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and black female identity and is influenced by African, Caribbean, and Latin Ameri ...
(born 1956), American artist
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Anti Saar
Anti Saar (born May 9, 1980) is a contemporary Estonian children’s writer and translator.
Saar graduated from the University of Tartu in semiotics.
Bibliography
* ''Kuidas meil asjad käivad'' (The Way Things Are With Us), Tänapäev 2013 ...
(born 1980), Estonian children’s writer and translator
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Betye Saar
Betye Irene Saar (born July 30, 1926) is an African-American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which eng ...
(born 1926), American artist
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Elmar Saar
Elmar Saar (19 February 1908 Tallinn – 19 December 1981 Tallinn) was an Estonian footballer, ice hockey player, coach and football referee.
1928-1936 he played 19 games for Estonia national football team
The Estonia national football team ...
(1908–1981), Estonian footballer and coach
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Erik Saar A United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare, land military branch, service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight Uniformed services of the United States, U.S. uniformed services, and is des ...
, American intelligence officer
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Evar Saar
Evar Saar ( vro, Saarõ Evar; born 16 August 1969) is an Estonian linguist, journalist, toponymist a Võro language activist. He has traveled extensively around the historical county of Võrumaa and documented the original names of all major ...
(born 1969), Estonian (Võro) non-fiction writer
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Ferdinand von Saar
Ferdinand Ludwig Adam von Saar (30 September 1833 in Vienna, Austria – 24 July 1906 in Döbling) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet.
Together with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Countess Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ( cs, Marie von Ebn ...
(1833–1906), Austrian writer
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Getter Saar Getter Saar may refer to:
* Getter Saar (badminton)
* Getter Saar (footballer)
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(born 1992), Estonian badminton player
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Getter Saar Getter Saar may refer to:
* Getter Saar (badminton)
* Getter Saar (footballer)
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(born 1999), Estonian footballer
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Gideon Sa'ar (born 1966), Israeli politician
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Heleri Saar
Heleri Saar (born 16 November 1979) is an Estonian footballer, playing as a defender. She was a member of the Estonia women's national football team
The Estonia women's national football team ( et, Eesti naiste jalgpallikoondis) represents E ...
(born 1979), Estonian footballer
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Indrek Saar (born 1973), Estonian actor and politician
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Jüri Saar (born 1956), Estonian politician
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Katriin Saar
Katriin Saar (born 11 March 2002) is an Estonian tennis player.
She won the Under-16 girls' singles title at the 2017 Orange Bowl.
Saar made her Fed Cup debut for Estonia in 2018.
ITF Circuit finals Doubles: 3 (2–1)
Junior career
Saar ha ...
(born 2002), Estonian tennis player
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Ketlin Saar (born 1997), Estonian footballer
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Leonid Saar
Leonid Saar (15 February 1913, in Mõisaküla – 26 January 2010, in Bogart, Georgia, USA) was an Estonian basketball player, ice hockey player, and footballer. He competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics on the Estonia men's national basketball t ...
(1913–2010), Estonian basketball player, ice hockey player and footballer
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Margus Saar
Margus Saar (born April 20, 1966 in Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 202 ...
(born 1966), Estonian television journalist and producer
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Martin Saar
Martin Saar (born 30 April 1980) is an Estonian artist who currently lives and works between New York City and Tallinn, Estonia.
Life and work
Saar was born in Tallinn, Estonia.
He gained his MA in drawing at the New York Academy of Art in 2014 ...
(born 1980), Estonian artist
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Mart Saar (1882–1963), Estonian composer
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Takács de Saár Takács de Saár (in Hungarian: ''saári Takács'') is a Hungarian noble family. The family members mainly lived in Vas and Sopron counties and had their seat in Saár village, which since 1912 is a district of Sárvár
Sárvár (german: Kotenb ...
, Hungarian noble family
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(born 1944), Estonian actor
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Ulla Saar
Ulla Saar (born 4 January 1975 in Tallinn) is an Estonian illustrator, product designer, graphic artist, and interior designer.
She has graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts
The Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonian: ''Eesti Kunstiakadeemia'', ...
(born 1975), Estonian illustrator, product designer, graphic artist, and interior designer
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Valeri Saar
Valeri Saar (born 28 June 1955 in Valga) is an Estonian military personnel (Major General).
In 1976, he graduated from the Higher Air Defense Radio Electronic Military College in Zhitomir, Ukraine.
He started his military career in 1976, being a ...
(born 1955), Estonian military major general
Places
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Sa'ar, a kibbutz in Israel
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Saar, Bahrain
Sar or Saar () is a residential town in Bahrain, to the west of the capital, Manama.
Education
St. Christopher's School
# University College of Bahrain
Al Mahd Day Boarding School
The Budaiya Pre-School
# Saar Nursery
# The Japanese School in B ...
, a town in Bahrain
*Saar Region and Saar Area—in context, any of the following:
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Saarland, a federal state of Germany, often referred to as "the Saar"
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Saar (League of Nations), a League of Nations governed territory (1920–35)
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Saar Protectorate, a French protectorate (1947–56)
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Sarre (département)
Sarre was a department in the First French Republic and First French Empire. Its territory is now part of Germany and Belgium. Named after the river Saar (french: Sarre), it was created in 1798 in the aftermath of the Treaty of Campo Formio of 18 ...
, a French département (1798–1814)
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Saar (river), a navigable river running through the borderlands of France and Germany
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Saar (Rhine), a tributary of the Alpine Rhine in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen
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Saar (Werra)
Saar is a river of Thuringia, Germany. It flows into the Werra in Sachsenbrunn.
See also
*List of rivers of Thuringia
Rivers of Thuringia
Rivers of Germany
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, a tributary of the Werra in Thuringia, Germany
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Sarre, Aosta Valley
Sarre ( Valdôtain: ; Issime wae, Soaru) is a town and ''comune'' in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy.
Twin towns — sister cities
Sarre is twinned with:
* La Turbie
La Turbie (; oc, A Torbia; in Italian "Turbia" from ''t ...
, a town and comune in Aosta Valley region of North-Western Italy
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South American–Antarctic Ridge
The South American–Antarctic Ridge or simply American-Antarctic Ridge (SAAR or AAR) (in Spanish: Dorsal Antártico-Americana) is the tectonic spreading center between the South American Plate and the Antarctic Plate. It runs along the sea-fl ...
, a mid-ocean ridge in the South Atlantic
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Žďár nad Sázavou
Žďár nad Sázavou (; german: Saar) is a town in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. It is situated on a major rail link between Prague and Brno. The town both industrial and tourist centre. It is known f ...
in Moravia, now Žďár nad Sázavou, which was called Saar under the Austrian monarchy
Other uses
*Several classes of Israeli missile boats:
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Sa'ar 3-class missile boat
The Sa'ar 3 class ("Cherbourg") is a series of missile boats built in Cherbourg, France at the Amiot Shipyard based on an Israeli Navy modification of the German Navy's . They are also known as the stars of Cherbourg.
Design and development
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Sa'ar 4-class missile boat
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Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat
The Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boats ( he, סער 4.5) is a class of Israeli Sea Corps missile boats designed and built by Israel Shipyards Ltd. as an improved and stretched . There are two different subclasses that are both named Sa'ar 4.5. The fir ...
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Sa'ar 5-class corvette
*, a German cargo ship in service 1937–45
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German submarine tender ''Saar'', a WWII submarine tender
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Rosario - Islas Malvinas International Airport
Rosario () is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous city in the country, and is also the most po ...
, ICAO airport code: SAAR
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SAAR Foundation The SAAR Foundation was a flagship corporation representing charities, think tanks, and business entities. SAAR was named after its founder, Saudi patriarch Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, a man close to the Saudi ruling family and on the Golden Chai ...
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Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate, also Industry SAAR
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Estonian-language surnames