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Balsa (other)
Balsa is the tree '' Ochroma pyramidale'' or the light-weight wood it produces. Balsa may also refer to: * Balsa (software), a free and open-source e-mail client for Linux * ''Balsa'' (moth), a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae *Balsa (Roman town), in present-day southern Portugal *Balsa (ship), South American boat made of reeds * Balsa, Brazil, headland near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil *Balsa, Hungary, village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hungary * Balșa ( hu, Balsa, links=no), a commune in Hunedoara County, Romania *Balsa, a fictional character in the anime and manga Moribito series *Balša I ( 1362), ruler of the principality of Zeta in what is now southern Montenegro and northern Albania and founder of the Balšić noble family *Balša II (died 1385), son and successor of Balša I *Balša III (1387–1421), last ruler of Zeta in the Balšić noble family *Walsa Walsa (Quechua for raft, Hispanicized spelling ''Balsa'' (Spanish for raft, from Quechua) is a mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ochroma Pyramidale
''Ochroma pyramidale'', commonly known as the balsa tree, is a large, fast-growing tree native to the Americas. It is the sole member of the genus ''Ochroma''. The tree is famous for its wide usage in woodworking, with the name ''balsa'' being the Spanish word for "raft." A deciduous angiosperm, ''Ochroma pyramidale'' can grow up to 30 m tall, and is classified as a hardwood despite the wood itself being very soft; it is the softest commercial hardwood and is widely used because of its light weight. Biology Balsa on Bota Hill, Limbe Botanical Garden, Cameroon">Limbe_Botanical_Garden.html" ;"title="Bota Hill, Limbe Botanical Garden">Bota Hill, Limbe Botanical Garden, Cameroon A member of the mallow family, ''Ochroma pyramidale'' is native from southern Mexico to southern Brazil, but can now be found in many other countries (Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, Solomon Islands). It is a pioneer plant, which establishes itself in clearings in forests, either man-made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balsa (software)
Balsa is a lightweight email client written in C for the GNOME desktop environment. Balsa has a graphical front end, support for MIME attachments coming and going, directly supports POP3 and IMAP protocols. It has a spell checker and direct support for PGP and GPG for encryption. It has some basic filtering capabilities, and natively supports several email storage protocols. It also has some internationalization support, including Japanese fonts. It builds on top of these other open source packages: GNOME, libtool, libESMTP, aspell, and gmime. It also can optionally use libgtkhtml for HTML rendering, libkrb5 for GSS-API, and openldap for LDAP functionality. It can optionally be configured to use gpg-error and gpgme libraries. Balsa is packaged for a wide range of Linux distributions, including Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Slackware and Ubuntu, as well as for FreeBSD. See also * Comparison of email clients The following tables compare general and techni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balsa (moth)
''Balsa'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other f .... Species * '' Balsa labecula'' (Grote, 1880) * '' Balsa malana'' (Fitch, 1856) * '' Balsa tristigella'' (Walker, 1866) References ''Balsa''at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Hadeninae {{Hadeninae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balsa (Roman Town)
Balsa was a Roman coastal town in the province of Lusitania, Conventus Pacensis (capital Pax Julia). The modern location is in the rural estates of Torre d'Aires, Antas and Arroio, parish of Luz de Tavira, county of Tavira, district of Faro, in Algarve, Southern Portugal. Although having been one of the biggest Roman cities of Lusitania at the time, only in 2019 did excavations finally reveal remnants of Balsa. Name origin Balsa is a pre-Roman place-name with a probable Phoenician etymology: ''B'LŠ...'', a possible theonym connected with the older Phoenician occupation of neighbouring Tavira. References in Classical authors and archaeology It is mentioned by Pomponius Mela (DC III 1, 7), Pliny (HN IV 35, 116), Ptolemy (GH: II 5, 2), and Marcianus of Heracleia (PME: II, 13). Mints bronze ''asses'' and its lead divisors (''semis'', ''quadrans'', ''triens'', ''sextans'') about mid 1st century BCE, in Latin alphabet with marine motives (tunas, dolphins, several kinds of boats) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balsa (ship)
A balsa is a boat or ship built by various pre-Columbian South American civilizations constructed from woven reeds of the Totora bullrush. They varied in size from small canoe sized personal fishing boats to large ships up to 30 metres long. They are still used on Lake Titicaca in Peru and Bolivia. This term is also used by California archaeologists and anthropologists to refer to the woven and tied tule reed canoes used by the Native Californians in both pre-Columbian and historical eras. See also * Abora * Kantuta Expeditions * Kon-Tiki * Reed boat * Schoenoplectus acutus - common name ''tule'' External linksTule Boat Photo Gallery Ohlone
The Ohlone, formerly known as Costanoans (from Spanish meaning 'coast dweller'), are a Native American peo ...
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Balsa, Brazil
Balsa is a headland on the opposite side of the Amazon River from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. The AM-070 road bridge comes from Santo Agostinho to the headland. It has a dock and slipway A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. They are used for building and repairing ships and boats, and for launching and retrieving small ... that goes by the same name. References Geography of Amazonas (Brazilian state) {{AmazonasBR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balsa, Hungary
Balsa is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. In the 19th and 20th centuries, a small Jewish community lived in the village, in 1880 100 Jews lived in the village, most of whom were murdered in the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a .... The community had a Jewish cemetery. References Barabas {{Szabolcs-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balșa
Balșa ( hu, Balsa, german: Baleschen or ''Balza'') is a commune in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S .... It is composed of fourteen villages: Almașu Mic de Munte (''Kisalmás''), Ardeu (''Erdőfalva''), Balșa, Bunești (''Bunesd''), Galbina (''Galbina''), Mada (''Máda''), Oprișești, Poiana (''Pojána''), Poienița (''Váleajepi''), Roșia, Stăuini, Techereu (''Tekerő''), Vălișoara (until 1960 ''Porcurea''; ''Porkura'') and Voia (''Voja''). References Communes in Hunedoara County Localities in Transylvania {{Hunedoara-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moribito Series
The is a Japanese fantasy novel series written by Nahoko Uehashi. The first novel in the series, '' Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit'', has been adapted into numerous media, including a radio drama, manga series, an anime adaption, and a live-action series. As of 2018, the series is composed of 10 parts, published in 13 volumes. The series has been translated into several languages. In English, Scholastic released the first two novels in 2008 and 2009 respectively. Setting ''Moribito'' is set in a fantasy analog of historical Asia. The setting includes several nations, such as Kanbal, a rugged, Himalayan-like kingdom, and New Yogo, a fertile kingdom that combines elements of feudal Japan and Southwest China. The supernatural plays very prominently into the world of the series, with the physical world being referred to as Sagu and a parallel spirit world being referred to as Nayug. Characters Protagonists ; : : Played by: Haruka Ayase : A skilled warrior from the farawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balša I
Balša ( sr-Cyr, Балша) or Balsha ( sq, Balsha) 1362) was a provincial lord of the Zeta in ca. 1362. He is the eponymous founder of the Balšić noble family. Life He was a nobleman and military commander during the rule of Emperor Dušan the Mighty (r. 1331–1355) but managed to expand his power after the death of Dušan (20 December 1355) and gained control of the island of Mljet. He began by taking lands previously held by Lord Žarko, in Lower Zeta (south of Lake Skadar, and is then recognized as a "provincial lord" in charters of Emperor Uroš the Weak (r. 1355–1371). In 1362 his sons defeated and killed ''Head of Upper Zeta'' Đuraš Ilijić and expanded further into Upper Zeta. He is believed to have died by this time. He had three sons, Đurađ, Stracimir and Balša II, two of whom ruled the Principality of Zeta The Principality of Zeta ( sr, Кнежевина Зета, Kneževina Zeta) is a historiographical name for a late medieval principality located in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balša II
Balša Balšić ( sr-cyr, Балша Балшић); or Balsha II ( sq, Balsha II) died September 18, 1385), known in historiography as Balša II, was the Lord of Lower Zeta from 1378 to 1385. He managed to expand his borders towards the south; defeating the Albanian duke Karl Thopia. He was a member of the Balšić noble family, which ruled Zeta (with Scutari) from ca. 1362 to 1421. Early life Balša II was the youngest of three sons of Balša. According to Mavro Orbini, ''Balša'', the progenitor of the Balšić family, was a petty nobleman who held only one village in the area of Lake Skadar during the rule of Emperor Dušan the Mighty (r. 1331 to 1355). Only after the death of the emperor, during the subsequent weak rule of Emperor Uroš V, Balša together with his friends and his three sons (Stracimir, Đurađ and Balša II) gained power in Lower Zeta, which had previously been the lands of ''gospodin'' Žarko (fl. 1336 to 1360). Balša's people then turned for Upper Zeta, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balša III
Balša III ( sr-cyr, Балша III) or Balsha III ( sq, Balsha III) (1387 – 28 April 1421, in Belgrade) was the fifth and last ruler of Zeta from the Balšić noble family, from April 1403 to April 1421. He was the son of Đurađ II and Jelena Lazarević. Reign In April 1403, the seventeen-year-old Balša became the ruler of Zeta when his father Đurađ II died as a result of the injuries he had suffered at the Battle of Tripolje. As he was young and inexperienced, his main advisor was his mother, Jelena, a sister of the ruler of Serbia at the time, Stefan Lazarević. Under the influence of his mother, Balša reverted the order of the state religion, passing a law declaring Orthodox Christianity as the official confession of the state, while Catholicism became a tolerant confession. Balša waged a 10-year war against Venice, the First Scutari War. In 1405, Ulcinj, Bar and Budva were seized by the Venetians. Balša then became a vassal to the Ottoman Turks. In 1409, however, V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
