Zillah may refer to:
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Geography
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Zillah (country subdivision)
A zilā or zilla or zillah or jela or jilha is a country subdivision in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the worl ...
, a country subdivision in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
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Zillah, Washington
Zillah is a city in Yakima County, Washington, United States, with a population of 3,179 as of the 2020 census.
History
Zillah was founded in 1891 following the completion of the Sunnyside Canal project, an irrigation scheme delivering water fr ...
, United States, a city
People
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Zillah Smith Gill (1859–1937), New Zealand local politician and community leader
*Cecilia "Zillah" Andrén, winner of ''Talang 2007'', a Sweden TV talent show - see
Zillah & Totte
*Zillah Minx, a member of
Rubella Ballet
Rubella Ballet are an English gothic anarcho-punk band formed in 1979, who released several albums before splitting up in 1991. They reformed in 2000.
History
The band was formed by drummer Sid Ation (born Sid Truelove, 18 April 1960, Sutto ...
, a gothic anarcho-punk band
Fictional characters
*Zillah, a vampire from ''
Lost Souls'', by
Poppy Z Brite
Billy Martin (born May 25, 1967), formerly Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author. He initially achieved fame in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s by publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections. He i ...
*Zillah, the wife of Abel in ''
Cain
Cain ''Káïn''; ar, قابيل/قايين, Qābīl/Qāyīn is a Biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within Abrahamic religions. He is the elder brother of Abel, and the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, the first couple within the Bible. He wa ...
'', by
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and h ...
*Zillah, from Flora Thompson's ''
Lark Rise to Candleford
''Lark Rise to Candleford'' is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels by Flora Thompson about the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England, at the end of the 19th century. The stories were previously published s ...
''
*Zillah, from ''
Wuthering Heights
''Wuthering Heights'' is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under her pen name Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moorland, moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their tur ...
'', a novel by
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ''Wuthering Heights'', now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poet ...
*Zillah, a Native American princess who was thought to be capable of witchcraft and sentenced to die in ''
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'' is a science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, the third book in the Time Quintet. It was first published in 1978 with cover art by Diane Dillon.
The book's title is an allusion to the poem "Morning Song of Senli ...
'', the fourth book of the ''
Space-Time
In physics, spacetime is a mathematical model that combines the three-dimensional space, three dimensions of space and one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional manifold. Minkowski diagram, Spacetime diagrams can be used to visualize S ...
'' books. Her descendant, who was named after her and her grandmother, is now known as Mrs. O'Keeffe, the hard-hearted and unloving mother of Calvin and mother-in-law to Meg Murry, her highly intelligent younger brother Charles Wallace and twins Sandy and Dennys
Other uses
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Zillah (biblical figure), a wife of Lamech, a descendant of Cain
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USS ''Zillah'' (SP-2804), a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy in 1918
*''Zilla'', a 19th-century wooden steamboat - see
''Miztec'' (schooner barge)
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Zillah High School, Zillah, Washington
*Zillah (Senatorius Sacerdos Harpyiae) name given to sigil verve referring to Obsession (and division). Published circa 2005 - 2006.
See also
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Zilla (disambiguation)
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Zella, Libya, a town in north-central Libya
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