Vasa
Vasa may refer to:
Places
- Vaşa, Azerbaijan
- Väsa, a village in Dalarna, Sweden
- Vasa County, a historic county in modern-day Finland
- Vasa, the Swedish name of the city Vaasa in Finland
- Vasa Park, New Jersey
- Vasa Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota
- Wausa, Nebraska, named after Gustav Vasa, but with a slightly different spelling
- Vasa Loch, a brackish lagoon in southwestern Shapinsay, Orkney Islands
- Vasa Kellakiou, Cyprus
- Vasa Koilaniou, Cyprus
- Vasa, Rajasthan, a village in Sirohi District, Rajashthan, India
- Vasa, Palghar, a village in Maharshtra, India
Anatomy
- Vasa nervorum, small arteries that provide blood supply to peripheral nerves
- Vasa praevia, an obstetric complication
- Vasa recta, capillaries within the kidneys
- Vasa recta (intestines), capillaries surrounding the intestines
- Vasa vasorum, capillaries that supply the outer tissues of large blood vessels
Other uses
- Vasa (name)
- Vása, the sun in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional cosmology
- Vasa IFK, a Finnish football club
- Vasa parrot, a genus of parrots from Madagascar
- Vasaloppet, a Swedish ski race
- Kettil Karlsson (Vasa) (1433–1465), Swedish clergyman and regent of Sweden from 1464 to 1465
- House of Vasa, a medieval Swedish noble family, the royal house of Sweden 1523–1654 and of Poland 1587–1668
- Gustav Vasa, king of Sweden 1523-1560, considered to be founder of modern Sweden
- Vasa (ship), a Swedish warship that sank in 1628, since restored
- Vasa Museum, a museum in Stockholm, Sweden where the Vasa ship is now located
- vasa gene, a gene that is essential for germ cell development and was first identified in Drosophila melanogaster
See also
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