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Saba (island) Saba (; , ) is a Caribbean island which is the smallest special municipality (officially “ public body”) of the Netherlands. It consists largely of the active volcano Mount Scenery, which at is the highest point of the entire Kingdom of t ...
, an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea *
Şaba Shabo ( uk, Шабо, ro, Şaba, population 7,100) is a selo of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated at the Dniester Liman, some 7 km downstream of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. It hosts the administration of Shabo rural hromada, one of the hrom ...
(Romanian for Shabo), a town of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine *
Sabá Sabá is a town, with a population of 16,460 (2020 calculation),Citypopulation.de
Population of cities in Hondu ...
, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras *
Saba (river) The Saba (russian: Саба) is a river in Leningrad Oblast, Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its in ...
, Leningrad Oblast, Russia * Saba, Iran, a village in Bushehr Province * Saba District, Yamaguchi, district located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan *
Saba Island, United States Virgin Islands Saba Island is a rocky Caribbean island in the United States Virgin Islands, situated three miles south of Cyril E. King Airport on St. Thomas and 2.6 miles west of Water Island. It is a steep, 200 feet high island with a sandy beach on the nort ...
, an island three miles south of St. Thomas *
Saba Bank Saba Bank in the Caribbean Netherlands is the largest submarine atoll in the Atlantic Ocean and has some of the richest diversity of marine life in the Caribbean Sea. In 2010 it was designated as "Saba Bank National Park", one of the National Par ...
, the largest submarine atoll in the Atlantic Ocean, located in the Caribbean Netherlands * Saba Rock, a small island in the British Virgin Islands * Mukim Saba, a mukim in Brunei *
Kfar Saba Kfar Saba ( he, כְּפַר סָבָא), officially Kefar Sava, is a city in the Sharon region, of the Central District of Israel. In 2019 it had a population of 110,456, making it the 16th-largest city in Israel. The population of Kfar Saba i ...
, a city in Israel *
Kafr Saba Kafr Saba ( ar, كفر سابا), historically Capharsaba, was a Palestinian Arab village famous for its shrine dating to the Mamluk period and for a history stretching back for two millennia. The village was depopulated of its Arab residents by ...
, a historical village in Mandatory Palestine


History

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Sabaʾ The Sabaeans or Sabeans ( Sabaean:, ; ar, ٱلسَّبَئِيُّوْن, ''as-Sabaʾiyyūn''; he, סְבָאִים, Səḇāʾīm) were an ancient group of South Arabians. They spoke the Sabaean language, one of the Old South Arabian langua ...
, an ancient kingdom in South Arabia *
Saba' (Sheba) Sheba (; he, ''Šəḇāʾ''; ar, سبأ ''Sabaʾ''; Ge'ez: ሳባ ''Saba'') is a kingdom mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Quran. Sheba features in Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions, particularly the Ethiopian Orth ...
, an ancient kingdom mentioned in Biblical and Islamic traditions which may be the same as Sabaʾ


People

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Saba (name) Saba is a surname or given name. People with the given name or nickname Saba include the following, ordered by year of birth: * Saba (rapper) (born 1994), American rapper and record producer * Saba or Sabbas the Goth (334–372), Christian saint * ...
, a given or surname (includes list of people with the name) * Saba or
Sabbas the Goth Sabbas the Goth ( ro, Sava Gotul, gr, Σάββας ο Γότθος; died 12 April 372) is a Christian martyr and saint. Life and persecution Sabbas (also Saba) was born in 334 in a village in the Buzău river valley and lived in what is now ...
(334–372), Christian saint * Saba or
Sabbas the Sanctified SabasPatrich (1995). (439–532), in Church parlance Saint Sabas or Sabbas the Sanctified ( el, Σάββας ο Ηγιασμένος), was a Cappadocian Greeks, Cappadocian Greek monk, priest and saint, who was born in Cappadocia and lived mainly ...
(439–532), Christian saint *
Saba (rapper) Tahj Malik Chandler (born July 17, 1994), better known by his stage name Saba (stylized as SABA), is an American rapper and record producer. He grew up in the Austin neighborhood of the West Side of Chicago. He is a co-founder of the musical co ...
(born 1994), American rapper and record producer


Organizations

* Saba & Co. IP, an intellectual property firm active in Middle East and Africa *
SABA (electronics manufacturer) SABA (Schwarzwälder Apparate-Bau-Anstalt lit. Black Forest Apparatus Construction Institution) is a German electronics company founded in 1923 at Triberg im Schwarzwald (Black Forest), present-day Baden-Württemberg. SABA started as a clock-mak ...
, German electronics company and jazz record label, became MPS Records * Saba TV Network, an Afghan satellite television networking two channels *
SABA (clothing) SABA is an Australian fashion brand created by Joe Saba in 1965. The brand began as The Joseph SABA Shirt Shop on Flinders Lane in Melbourne. The brand carries a contemporary label for both women's and menswear lines. SABA have taken part in suc ...
, an up-market clothing brand sold in Australia *
Saba (car) The Ford Festiva is a subcompact car that was designed and manufactured by Mazda for Ford between 1986 and 2002. Festiva was sold in Japan, the Americas, and Australia. The name "Festiva" is derived from the Spanish word for "festive". It was not ...
, an Iranian car model based on the Kia Motors ''Pride'' design *
Saba Capital Management Saba may refer to: Places * Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea * Şaba (Romanian for Shabo), a town of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine * Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras * Saba (river), ...
, American hedge fund managed by Boaz Weinstein *
Saba Petroleum Greka Energy, legally HVI Cat Canyon Inc., is a privately held company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration principally in Santa Barbara County, California. Formed in 1999 after the acquisition and merger of several smaller firms, it is a subsidiar ...
, a private U.S. oil and gas company, mainly operating in southern and central California *
Saba News Agency The Saba News Agency (SABA), also known as the Yemen News Agency, is the official state news agency of Yemen. History and profile SABA was founded on 16 November 1970 as the official news agency of North Yemen, and is headquartered in the cap ...
, official Yemeni government news agency *
Saba University School of Medicine Saba University School of Medicine is a private for-profit offshore medical school located on Saba, a special municipality of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. Saba University confers upon its graduates the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree. It i ...
, located on the island of Saba, Netherlands * SABA or
Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates The Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates (SABA) is a nonprofit bicycle advocacy organization serving the Sacramento, California area. SABA was formed in 1991, and was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2003. SABA has more than 1,40 ...
, an organization in Sacramento, California *
SABA Women's Championship The SABA Women's Championship is a basketball tournament for women's national teams organized by the South Asia Basketball Association, a sub-zone of the FIBA Asia. Following the disappointment of not able to play basketball at the 2016 South As ...
, a basketball tournament organized by the South Asia Basketball Association


Plants

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Saba banana Saba banana (pron. or ), is a triploid hybrid (ABB) banana cultivar originating from the Philippines. It is primarily a cooking banana, though it can also be eaten raw. It is one of the most important banana varieties in Philippine cuisine. It ...
, a variety of banana originating in the Philippines * ''Saba'' (plant), a genus in family Apocynaceae native to Africa and Indian Ocean islands * Saba nut, the name of two species in the family Malvaceae native to Central and South America: ** ''
Pachira aquatica ''Pachira aquatica'' is a tropical wetland tree in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to Central and South America where it grows in swamps. It is known by its common names Malabar chestnut, French peanut, Guiana chestnut, Provision tree, Saba n ...
'' ** '' Pachira glabra''


Other uses

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Saba (sura) Saba’ ( ar, سبأ, ; from the city called "Sheba") is the 34th chapter (sūrah) of the Qur'an with 54 verses ('' āyāt''). It discusses the lives of Solomon and David, a story about the people of Sheba, challenges and warnings against the ...
, a chapter of the Qur'an * Saba (music), a scale in Arabic and Turkish music * "Saba", a ska song by Mephiskapheles * Saba (condiment), a typical condiment used in parts of Italy * British Aerospace P.1233-1 Saba, a proposed military aircraft *
Saba Saba Day Saba Saba Day on 7 July celebrates (among other things) the 1954 founding of the Tanzanian political party, TANU, the Tanganyika African National Union. Saba Saba is in Swahili which means seven seven in English. Swahili is the national langua ...
, a remembrance day in Tanzania and Kenya * " Saba the Bird", a poem by Patti Smith from the 1978 book ''Babel'' * Saba Sebatyne, a New Order Jedi character in the ''Star Wars'' Expanded Universe * Short-acting β-agonist, a class of drug primarily used to treat asthma and other pulmonary disorders * Saba, a way of referring to mackerel as food


See also

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Sabah (disambiguation) Sabah is a state in Malaysia. Sabah may also refer to: People * Sabah (singer) (1925-2014), Lebanese singer/actress * Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah (born 1953), Kuwaiti royal and politician * Sabah Randhawa, American academic administrator * Miguel ...
* Sabbas (disambiguation) *
Sabians The Sabians, sometimes also spelled Sabaeans or Sabeans, are a mysterious religious group mentioned three times in the Quran (as , in later sources ), where it is implied that they belonged to the 'People of the Book' (). Their original ident ...
, a religious group mentioned in the Quran {{Disambiguation, given name, surname, geo