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Tawa, Edmonton Tawa is a residential neighbourhood in the Mill Woods area of south Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is a newer neighbourhood, with most of the development occurring in the early 1990s. The Grey Nuns Community Hospital is located in the neighbourho ...

, a residential neighbourhood in Edmonton, Canada *

Tawa, New Zealand Tawa is the northernmost suburb within the Wellington city boundary, located roughly 15 km north of Wellington's CBD between Churton Park and Porirua in the North Island of New Zealand. It takes its name from the broadleaf tree, which was o ...

, a suburb of Wellington **

Tawa AFC Tawa AFC is an association football club in Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South I ...

, an association football club **

Tawa College Tawa College is a state coeducational secondary school located in Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand. The school opened in 1961, and primarily serves students in Tawa and the surrounding suburbs. A total of students from Years 9 to 13 attend the sc ...

, a coeducational school in Tawa, New Zealand * Tawa, Dahanu, a village in Maharashtra, India *

Tawa River The Tawa River is a tributary of the Narmada River of Central India. Course The Tawa is the Narmada's largest tributary, at 172 km. It rises in the Satpura Range of Betul and flowing north and west, joins the Narmada at the village of B ...

, in central India * Tawa, Toowoomba, a heritage-listed house in Queensland, Australia

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Tava A tava(h) / tawa(h) (mainly on the Indian subcontinent), saj (in Arabic), sac (in Turkish) and other variations and combinations thereof, is a metal-made cooking utensil. The tawa is round and can be flat, but more commonly has a curved prof ...

, also called Tawa(h), a frying pan originating on the Indian subcontinent *

Tawa (crater) Tawa may refer to: Places *Tawa, Edmonton, a residential neighbourhood in Edmonton, Canada * Tawa, New Zealand, a suburb of Wellington **Tawa AFC, an association football club **Tawa College, a coeducational school in Tawa, New Zealand * Tawa, D ...

, an impact crater on Rhea *''

Tawa hallae ''Tawa'' (named after the Hopi word for the Puebloan sun god) is a genus of possible basal theropod dinosaurs from the Late Triassic period. The fossil remains of ''Tawa hallae'', the type and only species were found in the Hayden Quarry of ...

'', a dinosaur named after the solar deity of the

Puebloan peoples The Puebloans or Pueblo peoples, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices. Currently 100 pueblos are actively inhabited, among which Taos, San Ildefonso, Acoma, Z ...

(using the Hopi name) *

Tawa (tree) ''Beilschmiedia tawa'', the tawa, is a New Zealand broadleaf tree common in the central parts of the country. Tawa is often the dominant canopy tree species in lowland forests in the North Island and the north east of the South Island, but ...

, after which the New Zealand suburb is named *An early variation on the name of the

Ottawa tribe The Odawa (also Ottawa or Odaawaa ), said to mean "traders", are an Indigenous American ethnic group who primarily inhabit land in the Eastern Woodlands region, commonly known as the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. They ha ...

Tawa (mythology) The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries. However, it is difficult to definitively state what all Hopis as a group believe. Like the oral traditions of many other societies, Hopi mythology is ...

, a solar deity in

Hopi mythology The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries. However, it is difficult to definitively state what all Hopis as a group believe. Like the oral traditions of many other societies, Hopi mythology is ...

Bert Marcelo Norberto Joya "Bert" Marcelo Sr. (June 6, 1936 – December 16, 1995) was a prominent Filipino television personality whose trademark high-pitched infectious laughter earned him the popular moniker "Tawa", after the Tagalog word for laugh. Ba ...

, nicknamed "Tawa", Filipino comedian.

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