Vasa may refer to:

• House of Vasa, a medieval Swedish noble family, the royal house of Sweden 1523-1654 and of Poland 1587-1668
  • Vasa (ship), a Swedish warship that sank in 1628, since restored
  • Vasa Museum, Stockholm, where the restored ship is currently displayed
  • Order of Vasa, one of the Royal Swedish orders of knighthood
  • Vasa Order of America, a Swedish-American Fraternal Order

In places: The Vasa Coat of Arms The House of Vasa was the Royal House of Sweden (1523-1654) and of Poland (1587-1668). ... Vasa (or Wasa)[1] was a warship that was built for King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden from 1626 to 1628. ... The Vasa Museum (Vasa Museet), located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden, is a maritime museum that displays the worlds only surviving 17th century ship, HMS Wasa. ... The Royal Order of Vasa (Kungliga Vasaorden) was a Swedish Royal order of chivalry, awarded to citizens of Sweden for service to state and society especially agriculture, mining and commerce. ... Founded in 1896 at the height of Swedish immigration to the United States, the Vasa Order of America is a Swedish-American fraternal order for Scandinavian-American families and their descendants. ...

• Väsa, a village in Dalarna, Sweden
• Vasa County, a historic county in current Finland
• Vasa Park, New Jersey
• Vasa Township, Minnesota
• Vasa Loch, a brackish lagoon in southwestern Shapinsay, Orkney Islands

In anatomy: Österbotten County, Österbottens län, or Pohjanmaan lääni, was a County of Sweden from 1634. ... Vasa Township is a township located in Goodhue County, Minnesota. ...

• 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

In other uses: Vasa praevia (vasa previa AE) is an obstetric complication defined as fetal vessels crossing or running in close proximity to the inner cervical os. ... A nephron, the vasa recta is labelled arteria recta In the blood supply of the kidney, the vasa recta form a series of straight capillaries (recta is from the Latin for straight) that descend from the cortex into the medulla. ... Most cells need to be within a few cell-widths of a capillary to stay alive, and the cells that make up the outer walls of a blood vessel are no exception. ...

• 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

There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Species Coracopsis vasa Coracopsis nigra The vasa parrots Coracopsis are two species of parrot which are endemic to Madagascar and other islands in the western Indian Ocean. ... Womens Vasa (Tjejvasan), start 2006 Vasaloppet is a long distance cross-country ski race (ski marathon) held in Dalarna, Sweden, annually on the first Sunday of March. ...

People with the name Vasa

• Robert F. Vasa (born 1951), Bishop of Baker
• Vasa Mihich (born 1933), American artist
• Vasa Mijić (born 1973), Serbian volleyball player
• Gustavus Vasa Fox (1821–1883), U.S. Naval officer during the American Civil War

Robert Francis Vasa is the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Baker. ...

See also

• Vaasa, a city on the west coast of Finland
• Wasa (disambiguation)

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