Saar or SAAR has several meanings:
People
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Sarr Boubacar
Boubacar Sarr (born 20 July 1951) is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a striker. In France, he played for Toulon, Marseille, Cannes, Paris Saint-Germain and Martigues, and in the United States for New Jersey City FC.
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(born 1951), Senegalese professional football player
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Saar Ganor, Israeli archaeologist
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Saar Klein
Saar Klein (; born 1967) is an Israeli-American film editor and director, who has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for '' The Thin Red Line'' and for ''Almost Famous'', and who received an ACE Eddie Award for editing ...
(born 1967), American film editor
Surname
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Ain Saar (born 1968), Estonian (Võro) punk rocker and freedom fighter
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Alison Saar
Alison Saar (born February 5, 1956) is a Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles-based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and black female identity and is influenced by African, Caribbean, and ...
(born 1956), American artist
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Anti Saar (born 1980), Estonian children’s writer and translator
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Betye Saar
Betye Irene Saar (born July 30, 1926) is an American artist known for her work in the medium of Assemblage (art), assemblage. Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, w ...
(born 1926), American artist
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Elmar Saar (1908–1981), Estonian footballer and coach
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Erik Saar, American intelligence officer
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Evar Saar (born 1969), Estonian (Võro) non-fiction writer
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Ferdinand von Saar
Ferdinand Ludwig Adam von Saar (30 September 1833 in Vienna, Austrian Empire, Austria – 24 July 1906 in Döbling) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet.
Together with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach he was one of the most important realisti ...
(1833–1906), Austrian writer
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Getter Saar (badminton) (born 1992), Estonian badminton player
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Getter Saar (born 1999), Estonian footballer
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Gideon Sa'ar
Gideon Moshe Sa'ar (; born 9 December 1966) is an Israeli politician currently serving as Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel), Foreign Minister and member of the Knesset for the party New Hope (Israel), New Hope. Sa'ar was first electe ...
(born 1966), Israeli politician
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Heleri Saar (born 1979), Estonian footballer
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Indrek Saar
Indrek Saar (born February 20, 1973) is an Estonian actor and politician. He has been the leader of the Social Democratic Party from 2019 to 2022 and the Minister of Culture of Estonia from 2015 to 2019.
Saar has been elected to the Estonian parl ...
(born 1973), Estonian actor and politician
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Jüri Saar (born 1956), Estonian politician
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Katriin Saar
Katriin Saar (born 11 March 2002) is an Estonian tennis player.
She won the Under-16 girls' singles title at the 2017 Orange Bowl.
Saar made her Fed Cup debut for Estonia in 2018.
ITF Circuit finals Doubles: 3 (2–1)
Junior career
Saar h ...
(born 2002), Estonian tennis player
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Ketlin Saar (born 1997), Estonian footballer
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Leonid Saar (1913–2010), Estonian basketball player, ice hockey player and footballer
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Margus Saar
Margus Saar (born 20 April 1966 in Tallinn) is an Estonian television journalist and producer. He was felicitated with the Order of the White Star
The Order of the White Star (; ) was instituted in 1936. The Order of the White Star is bestowed o ...
(born 1966), Estonian television journalist and producer
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Martin Saar
Martin Saar (born 30 April 1980) is an Estonian artist who currently lives and works between New York City and Tallinn, Estonia.
Life and work
Saar was born in Tallinn, Estonia.
He gained his MA in drawing at the New York Academy of Art in 20 ...
(born 1980), Estonian artist
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Mart Saar
Mart Saar ( in Hüpassaare – 28 October 1963) was an Estonian composer, organist and collector of folk songs.
Childhood
Saar was born in the small borough of Hüpassaare (now in Karjasoo, Suure-Jaani Parish), Kreis Fellin in the Livonia ...
(1882–1963), Estonian composer
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Takács de Saár Takács de Saár (in Hungarian: ''saári Takács'') is a Hungarian noble family. The family members mainly lived in Vas and Sopron counties and had their seat in Saár village, which since 1912 is a district of Sárvár
Sárvár ( or ; ; ) is a ...
, Hungarian noble family
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(1944–2022), Estonian actor
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Ulla Saar
Ulla Saar (born 4 January 1975 in Tallinn) is an Estonian illustrator, product designer, graphic artist, and interior designer.
She has graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts
The Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonian language, Estonian: ''Eesti K ...
(born 1975), Estonian illustrator, product designer, graphic artist, and interior designer
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Valeri Saar
Valeri Saar (born 28 June 1955 in Valga) is an Estonian military personnel ( Major General).
In 1976, he graduated from the Higher Air Defense Radio Electronic Military College in Zhitomir, Ukraine.
He started his military career in 1976, bein ...
(born 1955), Estonian military major general
Places
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Sa'ar
Sa'ar () is a kibbutz in the western Galilee in Israel. Located near Nahariya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The kibbutz was founded in August 1948 by members of the Social ...
, a kibbutz in Israel
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Saar, Bahrain
Sar or Saar () is a residential town in Bahrain, to the west of the capital, Manama. It is known for its beautiful landscaping and greenery.
Education
# St. Christopher's School
# University College of Bahrain
Al Mahd Day Boarding School
The B ...
, a town in Bahrain
*Saar Region and Saar Area—in context, any of the following:
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Saarland
Saarland (, ; ) is a state of Germany in the southwest of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the smallest in ...
, a federal state of Germany, often referred to as "the Saar"
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Saar (League of Nations)
The Territory of the Saar Basin (, ; ) was a region occupied and governed by the United Kingdom and Third French Republic, France from 1920 to 1935 under a League of Nations mandate. It had its own flag (adopted on 28 July 1920): a blue, white, ...
, a League of Nations governed territory (1920–35)
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Saar Protectorate
The Saar Protectorate ( ; ), officially Saarland (), was a short-lived French protectorate and a disputed territory separated from Germany. On joining the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG/West Germany) in 1957, it became the smallest "federal ...
, a French protectorate (1947–56)
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Sarre (département)
Sarre () was a department in the First French Republic and First French Empire. Its territory is now part of Germany and Belgium. Named after the river Saar (), it was created in 1798 in the aftermath of the Treaty of Campo Formio of 18 Octob ...
, a French département (1798–1814)
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Saar (river)
The Saar (; ) is a river in northeastern France and western Germany, and a right tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine and flows northwards into the Moselle near Trier. It has two heads ...
, a navigable river running through the borderlands of France and Germany
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Saar (Rhine), a tributary of the Alpine Rhine in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen
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Saar (Werra), a tributary of the Werra in Thuringia, Germany
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Sarre, Aosta Valley
Sarre (; Valdôtain: ; Issime ) is a town and ''comune'' in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy.
Main sights include Sarre Castle.
Twin towns — sister cities
Sarre is twinned with:
* La Turbie
La Turbie (; ; ) is a commun ...
, a town and comune in Aosta Valley region of North-Western Italy
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South American–Antarctic Ridge, a mid-ocean ridge in the South Atlantic
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Žďár nad Sázavou
Žďár nad Sázavou (; ) is a town in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. The town is an industrial and tourist centre. It is known for the Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk, which is a UNESCO Wor ...
in Moravia, now Žďár nad Sázavou, which was called Saar under the Austrian monarchy
Other uses
*Several classes of Israeli missile boats:
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Sa'ar 3-class missile boat
The Sa'ar 3 class ("Cherbourg") is a series of missile boats built in Cherbourg, France at the Amiot Shipyard based on an Israeli Navy modification of the German Navy's . They are also known as the stars of Cherbourg.
Design and development
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Sa'ar 4-class missile boat
The Sa'ar 4 or ''Reshef'' class were a series of fast attack craft built based on Israeli Navy designs grounded in accumulated experience derived in the operation of "Cherbourg" (Sa'ar 1, Sa'ar 2, and ) classes. Thirteen were built at ...
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Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat
The Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boats () is a class of Israeli Sea Corps missile boats designed and built by Israel Shipyards Ltd. for Shayetet 3 flotilla as an improved and stretched . There are two different subclasses that are both named Sa'ar 4. ...
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Sa'ar 5-class corvette
Sa'ar 5 () is a class of Israeli Navy corvettes. They were Israeli designed using lessons learned from the s. Three Sa'ar 5 ships were built by Huntington Ingalls Industries (formerly Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississ ...
*, a German cargo ship in service 1937–45
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German submarine tender ''Saar'', a WWII submarine tender
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Rosario - Islas Malvinas International Airport, ICAO airport code: SAAR
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SAAR Foundation
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Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate, also Industry SAAR
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''Saar'' (film series), a series of Indian Kannada-language comedy films by Rajendra Singh Babu
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Estonian-language surnames