Tofa
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- Tofa languageTofa languageTofa, also known as Tofalar or Karagas, is one of the Turkic languages spoken in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast by the Tofalar. It is a moribund language: in 2001 only 28 people were reported to speak it....
— A Turkic language spoken in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast. - Bashir TofaBashir TofaBashir Othman Tofa is a Nigerian politician. A Hausa Muslim who hails from Kano State, Tofa was the National Republican Convention candidate in the annulled Nigeria's June 12, 1993 presidential election, which was organised by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida.Before his...
— A Nigerian politician. - Tofa — Berlin based multimedia artist.
- TOFA — Tall oilTall oilTall oil, also called "liquid rosin" or tallol, is a viscous yellow-black odorous liquid obtained as a by-product of the Kraft process of wood pulp manufacture when pulping mainly coniferous trees. The name originated as an anglicization of the Swedish "tallolja"...
fatty acids - Tofa, NigeriaTofa, NigeriaTofa is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Tofa.It has an area of 202 km² and a population of 97,734 at the 2006 census.The postal code of the area is 701....
, a Local Government Area of Kano State - TófaTofa (Poetic Edda)Tófa is the wife of Angantyr and mother of Hervor, in Hervararkviða, a poem from the Poetic Edda which is part of the Tyrfing Cycle.-In the Poetic Edda:She is mentioned only once, in Hervor's appeal to Angantyr:...
— the wife of AngantyrAngantyrAngantyr was the name of three characters from the same line in Norse mythology, and who appear in Hervarar saga, in Gesta Danorum and Faroese ballads....
and mother of HervorHervorHervor is the name of two female characters in the cycle of the magic sword Tyrfing, presented in Hervarar saga with parts found in the Poetic Edda. The first Hervor was the daughter of Angantyr...
in the Poetic EddaPoetic EddaThe Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th century...
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