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Savannah or savanna
Savanna
A savanna, or savannah, is a grassland ecosystem characterized by the trees being sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support an unbroken herbaceous layer consisting primarily of C4 grasses.Some...

is a type of grassland.
It can also mean:

People

  • Savannah King
    Savannah King
    Savannah King is a female swimmer from Canada, who mostly competes in the freestyle events. She claimed a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....

    , a Canadian freestyle swimmer
  • Savannah Outen
    Savannah Outen
    Savannah Outen is an American singer who gained popularity on YouTube. Outen began posting videos of herself singing on YouTube in March 2007 along with Angelika Vee and Esmee Denters. In 2010 she collaborated with Boyce Avenue on their sixth acoustic album, New Acoustic Sessions...

    , a singer who gained popularity on You Tube
  • Savanna Samson
    Savanna Samson
    Natalie Oliveros, better known by the stage name Savanna Samson, is an American pornographic actress. The winner of several AVN Awards, she has spent most of her career as a contract performer with major producer Vivid Entertainment, and is known for her roles in acclaimed adult films such as The...

    , real name Natalie Oliveros, an American pornographic actress, and winner of several AVN Awards
  • Savannah (pornographic actress), real name Shannon Michelle Wilsey, an American pornographic actress who committed suicide
  • Savannah, the ring name of wrestler Angela Marie Fong
  • Savannah Phillips, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    -Canadian great-granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II

Software

  • GNU Savannah
    GNU Savannah
    GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation initiated by Loïc Dachary, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for Free Software projects. Savannah currently offers CVS, GNU arch, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, mailing list, web hosting, file...

    , an aggregation of software development projects affiliated with the GNU project

Places in the USA

  • Savannah, Georgia
    Savannah, Georgia
    Savannah is the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Established in 1733, the city of Savannah was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Today Savannah is an industrial center and an important...

    • Savannah River
      Savannah River
      The Savannah River is a major river in the southeastern United States, forming most of the border between the states of South Carolina and Georgia. Two tributaries of the Savannah, the Tugaloo River and the Chattooga River, form the northernmost part of the border...

      , Major river flowing through Savannah, Georgia
      • Port of Savannah
        Port of Savannah
        The Port of Savannah is a major U.S. seaport located at Savannah, Georgia. Its extensive facilities for oceangoing vessels line both sides of the Savannah River approximately from the Atlantic Ocean...

        , Major U.S. seaport
  • Savannah, California
    Savannah, California
    Savannah is a former settlement in Los Angeles County, California. It was located on the line of the Southern Pacific Railroad between San Gabriel and El Monte, at an elevation of 276 feet ....

  • Savannah, Missouri
    Savannah, Missouri
    Savannah is a city in Andrew County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,762 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Andrew County.Savannah is part of the St...

  • Savannah, New York
    Savannah, New York
    Savannah is a town in the southeast portion of Wayne County, New York, United States. The population was 1,838 at the 2000 census. Savannah is west of Syracuse, New York...

  • Savannah, Tennessee
    Savannah, Tennessee
    Savannah is a city in Hardin County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 6,917 at the 2000 census and the 2007 population estimate was 7,262. It is the county seat of Hardin County. Savannah hosted the NAIA college football national championship game from 1996-2007. Savannah is home to...

  • Savanna, Illinois
    Savanna, Illinois
    Savanna is a city in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,062 at the 2010 census, down from 3,542 at the 2000 census. Savanna is located along the Mississippi River at the mouth of the Plum River. Going from north to south, the second automobile bridge between Iowa and...

  • Palo Alto, Mississippi
    Palo Alto, Mississippi
    Palo Alto is a ghost town in Clay County, Mississippi, United States. Established circa 1846, it is located at at an elevation of 279 feet ....

    , also called "Savannah"
  • Savannah Township (disambiguation) (two places)
  • Savannah Town, South Carolina
    Savannah Town, South Carolina
    Savannah Town, South Carolina was first observed in the 1670s as a Westo village, located on the Savannah River below the fall line in present day Aiken County. The Savannah displaced the Westos in a 1679-1680 trade war, and the town bore their name on a 1685 Joel Gascoyne Plat of the Province of...

    , a historic settlement near Augusta, Georgia
    • Savannah River Site
      Savannah River Site
      The Savannah River Site is a nuclear reservation in the United States in the state of South Carolina, located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barnwell Counties adjacent to the Savannah River, southeast of Augusta, Georgia. The site was built during the 1950s to refine nuclear materials for...

      , a nuclear facility near Aiken, South Carolina & Augusta, Georgia

Other places

  • Savanna, a private game reserve in Sabi Sabi
    Sabi Sabi
    Sabi Sabi is a private game reserve in South Africa, situated in the Sabi Sand Private Game Reserve which is in the South Western section of the Kruger National Park. The Sabi Sands Park which together with some other parks make up the Greater Kruger National Park.It is a conservation area where...

    , South Africa
  • Savanna-la-Mar
    Savanna-la-Mar
    Savanna-la-Mar is the chief town and capital of Westmoreland parish, Jamaica.It is a coastal town and contains a fort, constructed in the 18th century for defence against pirates....

     the capital of Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica

Ships

, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean
  • USS Savannah (AOR-4), a US Navy Wichita class replenishment oiler
  • NS Savannah
    NS Savannah
    NS Savannah, named for SS Savannah, was the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 million, including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core, funded by United States government agencies as a demonstration project for the potential...

    , the first nuclear-powered merchant ship

Entertainment and music

  • Savanna (Owarai)
    Savanna (Owarai)
    Savanna are a Japanese comedy duo consisting of and . Both attended Ritsumeikan University High School and created the manzai team as a joke during their years at Ritsumeikan University, having first met in the school's judo club. They then decided to join Yoshimoto Kogyo as a professional kombi...

    , a Japanese comedic duo
  • Blue Savannah
    Blue Savannah
    "Blue Savannah" is a song by Erasure which was issued as a single from the duo's fourth studio album Wild! in 1990. Mute Records released it in Europe as the album's third single, and Sire Records released it in the United States as the album's second single.It is a classic Erasure synth pop song...

    , a song by Erasure
  • Savannah (TV series)
    Savannah (TV series)
    Savannah is an American prime time television drama that ran from January 21, 1996 to February 24, 1997 on The WB. It was created by Constance M. Burge and produced by Aaron Spelling.-Plot:...

    , a television soap opera
  • Savannah, a character in Jay Jay the Jet Plane
    Jay Jay the Jet Plane
    Jay Jay the Jet Plane is an American CGI children's television series based at the fictional Tarrytown Airport. It has about 60 episodes and it is aimed at ages 2-6. The characters are talking airplanes, a helicopter, some humans, and two talking ground vehicles...


Other uses

  • Savannah (cat)
    Savannah (cat)
    The Savannah is a domestic hybrid cat breed. It is a cross between a serval and a domestic cat. -History:...

    , a breed of cat
  • Savannah Monitor
    Savannah monitor
    The savanna monitor is a species of monitor lizard native to Africa. The species is known as Bosc's monitor in Europe, since French scientist Louis Bosc first described the species...

    , a lizard
  • Savanna Dry
    Savanna Dry
    Savanna Dry Cider is a brand of dry cider, brewed in South Africa from Granny Smith apples grown in Elgin, Western Cape. It contains 5.5% alcohol...

    , a brand of cider
  • Siege of Savannah
    Siege of Savannah
    The Siege of Savannah or the Second Battle of Savannah was an encounter of the American Revolutionary War in 1779. The year before, the city of Savannah, Georgia, had been captured by a British expeditionary corps under Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell. The siege itself consisted of a joint...

    , a battle in the American Revolutionary War
  • Savanna, the Japanese market name for the Mazda RX-7
    Mazda RX-7
    Series 1 is commonly referred to as the "SA22C" from the first alphanumerics of the vehicle identification number. This series of RX-7 had exposed steel bumpers and a high-mounted indentation-located license plate, called by Werner Buhrer of Road & Track magazine a "Baroque depression."In 1980...

    car
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