Artemisia
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Artemisia can mean:
People
- Artemisia I of Caria (fl. 480 BC), queen of Halicarnassus under the First Persian Empire, naval commander during the second Persian invasion of Greece
- Artemisia II of Caria (died 350 BC), queen of Caria under the First Persian Empire, ordered the construction of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
- Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1651/1653), Italian painter
Places
- Artemisia Geyser, in Yellowstone National Park, US
- Artemisia, Messinia, Greek village west of Taygetus mountain in the Peloponnese
- Artemisia pipe, diatreme in the Northwest Territories, Canada
- Artemisia, Zakynthos, municipality on Zakynthos, Greece
- Kingdom of Artemisia, regional designation created by the Society for Creative Anachronism, covering parts of the western US
In arts and entertainment
- Artemisia (opera) (Venice, 1657), opera by Cavalli
- Artemisia (Dresden, 1754), opera seria by Johann Adolph Hasse
- Artemisia (Goldoni), unperformed 18th century play by Carlo Goldoni
- Artemizia, unfinished opera by Domenico Cimarosa, which he worked on until his death in 1801
- Artemisia (film), 1997 French film about the Italian painter
- Artemisia (Rembrandt), 1634 painting by Rembrandt
- Artemisia (album), 2007 album by the Dutch band Sun Caged
- Artemisia oth Hinriad, character from the novel The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
- Artemisia, main character of Moira by Sound Horizon
Other uses
- Artemisia (plant), genus of plants including the sagebrush and wormwood
- Artemisia (ship), 1848, the first government immigrant ship to arrive in Moreton Bay, now Queensland, then New South Wales
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