The term Samaná or Samana may mean several things:
Places
Dominican Republic
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Samaná Province
Samaná () is a province of the Dominican Republic in the Samaná Peninsula located in the eastern region. Its capital is Santa Bárbara de Samaná, usually known as Samaná.
The province is on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the northeaster ...
, a province in the Dominican Republic
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Samaná (town)
Samaná (old spelling: Xamaná), in full Santa Bárbara de Samaná, is a town and municipality in northeastern Dominican Republic and is the capital of Samaná Province. It is located on the northern coast of Samaná Bay. The town is an impor ...
, or Santa Bárbara de Samaná, the capital of Samaná Province
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Samaná Peninsula
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Samaná Bay, a body of water in the Atlantic next to the Samaná Peninsula
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Samaná El Catey International Airport
Samaná El Catey International Airport , also called Aeropuerto Internacional Presidente Juan Bosch (AISA), is an international airport that opened on 6 November 2006, serving the province of Samaná in the Dominican Republic.
The airport is ...
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Samana Cay
Samana Cay is a now uninhabited island in the Bahamas believed by some researchers to have been the location of Christopher Columbus's first landfall in the Americas on October 12, 1492.
It is an islet in the eastern Bahamas, northeast of Ackli ...
, a uninhabited
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Samaná, Caldas, a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Caldas
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Samaná Norte River, a river in Antioquia Department, Colombia
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Samana, India, a town in Patiala district in the Indian state of Punja
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Samana Range, a mountain range in Pakistan near Peshawar
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Samana, Guinea
People
*Samana, , or
śramaṇa
''Śramaṇa'' (Sanskrit; Pali: ''𑀲𑀫𑀦'') means "one who labours, toils, or exerts themselves (for some higher or religious purpose)" or "seeker, one who performs acts of austerity, ascetic".Monier Monier-Williams, श्रमण śr ...
, the name for certain wandering ascetics from the Indian subcontinent, one of whom was Gautama Buddha
*Samana, the mother of Imam
Ali al-Hadi
ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hādī ( ar, عَلِيّ ٱبْن مُحَمَّد ٱلْهَادِي; 828 – 868 CE) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the tenth of the Twelve Imams, succeeding his father, Muhammad al-Jawad. He ...
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Natthaphong Samana (born 1984), Thai footballer
Other
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Samaná Americans, a community of descendants of 19th century U.S. freed people of color in the Dominican Republic
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Samaná English, spoken by the Samaná Americans
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''Samana'' (moth), a genus of moths in the family Geometridae
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Samana hutia The term Samaná or Samana may mean several things:
Places Dominican Republic
*Samaná Province, a province in the Dominican Republic
*Samaná (town), or Santa Bárbara de Samaná, the capital of Samaná Province
*Samaná Peninsula
*Samaná Bay, a ...
, an extinct species of rodent in the family Capromyidae
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