Tumba
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Grave
A grave is a location where a dead body is buried.Grave may also refer to:*Grave accent, a diacritical mark*Grave , a term used to classify sounds*Grave , a term for "slow and solemn" music*Grave , an old name for the kilogram...

 in Spanish, Tumba can refer to:

Places:
  • Tumba, Sweden
    Tumba, Sweden
    Tumba is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Botkyrka Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden with 35,311 inhabitants in 2005. A part of its statistical urban area, called Rönninge, is in Salem Municipality. The population is 35,311 . The Swedish krona banknotes are printed by Crane AB at Tumba...

     - a town in Botkyrka, Sweden.
  • Tumba (Skopje)
    Tumba (Skopje)
    Tumba is a Neolithic settlement located in the north-eastern part of Skopje, Macedonia and it is the most significant Neolithic settlement in Skopje valley...

     - an ancient Neolithic settlement in the Republic of Macedonia.
  • Tumba (Vranje)
    Tumba (Vranje)
    Tumba is a village in the municipality of Vranje, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 44 people....

     - a village in the Vranje
    Vranje
    Vranje is a city and municipality located in southern Serbia. In 2011 the city has total population of 82,782, while the urban area has 54,456...

     municipality of southern Serbia.
  • Tumba Peak (Šar)
    Tumba Peak (Šar)
    Tumba is a mountain peak found in south-east Kosovo, Serbia. It is high. Tumba is part of the long ridge of the Šar Mountains. It is in the northern part of the range and its peak is just above the Livadh Lake. It is next to the Maja Livadh....

     - a mountain peak in south-east Kosovo.
  • Tumba Peak (Belasica)
    Tumba Peak (Belasica)
    Tumba is a peak in the Belasica mountains in the region of Macedonia. The peak, in height, lies on Belasica's main ridge, west of Lozen Peak and east of Sechena Skala Peak. A dome-shaped mountain with steep southern and northern slopes, Tumba is covered with low subalpine vegetation and is made...

     - a mountain peak where the borders of Bulgaria, Greece and the Republic of Macedonia meet
  • Tumba Peak (Cherna gora)  - a mountain peak in western Bulgaria
  • Lake Tumba
    Lake Tumba
    Lake Tumba is a shallow lake in northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located at around and has an area of 500.00 km² and is from 2 to 6 m deep. It is the part of the Congo River basin. Lake Tumba hosts 114 species of fish...

     - a lake in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

  • Bara Tumba
    Bara Tumba
    Bara Tumba is an ancient living area from Neolithic times located near the village of Porodin, Macedonia, near Bitola. Discovered in 1953, several objects and some old Neolithic houses have been found. These objects are kept in the Museum of Bitola....

     - an ancient living area from Neolithic times in the Republic of Macedonia.
  • Veluška Tumba
    Veluška Tumba
    Veluška Tumba is an ancient living area from Neolithic times located near the village of Porodin, Republic of Macedonia, close to Bitola. Veluška Tumba was discovered in 1978. Many tools and pottery have been found here, which are now housed in the Museum of Bitola.-External...

     - an ancient living area from Neolithic times in the Republic of Macedonia.


Music:
  • Tumba (music genre) is a native musical form that is played in Aruba and Curaçao. Jan Gerard Palm
    Jan Gerard Palm
    Jan Gerard Palm was a 19th century composer. Palm is often referred to as the "father of Curaçao's classical music".-Biography:...

     was the first composer to write Tumbas.
  • Tumba (drum)
    Tumba (drum)
    The tumba is a kind of long, thin drum, whose pitch depends on the part of the head being hit. Tumbas appear in Leroy Anderson's Jazz Pizzicato and Fiddle-Faddle , as well as the music of various Latin American dance bands and in Hans Werner Henze's opera The English Cat....

     - a rare kind of thin drum.
  • The tumba is the largest drum of the conga
    Conga
    The conga, or more properly the tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum with African antecedents. It is thought to be derived from the Makuta drums or similar drums associated with Afro-Cubans of Central African descent. A person who plays conga is called a conguero...

    family.
  • Tumba francesa ('French tumba') is the name for a style of music brought from Haiti to Cuba following the Haitian slave rebellion of 1791.
  • Tumba is also the Panamanian colloquial name for a folkloric drum about 3 feet high, a foot across, mounted on a stand. It is struck with the hands.
  • Tumba Sound is a band from Fredericton New Brunswick Canada formed in the summer of 2010.


People:
  • Sven Tumba, former Swedish ice hockey and golf player


Other:
  • Tumba Bruk
    Tumba Bruk
    Tumba Bruk is the printing company responsible for manufacturing of the Swedish krona banknotes. The company was founded by Sveriges Riksbank in 1755 to produce banknotes, but in 2002 the company was sold to the current owner, banknote paper supplier Crane & Co.. It is located in Tumba, close to...

     - the printing company responsible for manufacturing of the Swedish krona banknotes, located in Tumba
    Tumba, Sweden
    Tumba is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Botkyrka Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden with 35,311 inhabitants in 2005. A part of its statistical urban area, called Rönninge, is in Salem Municipality. The population is 35,311 . The Swedish krona banknotes are printed by Crane AB at Tumba...

    .
  • Another spelling for Thumba
    Thumba
    Thumba is a suburb of Thiruvananthapuram city, capital of Kerala, India.Thumba became well-known to the out-siders after the establishment of Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station , which was the first of that kind in India...

    , India's first rocket launching site.
  • Tumba (drink) A Nepalese alcoholic beverage made from fermented millet or other cereals.
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