Sasi is an Indian and Nepali male and female name, abstracted from ancient
Sanskrit
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language, meaning "
Moon
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". It is commonly used in India in various masculine and feminine given names.
Sasi may refer to:
People
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Sasi (usurper)
Sasi is an Indian and Nepali male and female name, abstracted from ancient Sanskrit language, meaning "Moon". It is commonly used in India in various masculine and feminine given names.
Sasi may refer to:
People
* Sasi (usurper), 7th century B ...
, 7th century BC usurper in the Assyrian Empire
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I. V. Sasi
Irruppam Veedu Sasidaran (28 March 1948 – 24 October 2017) was an Indian film director who made over 110 films predominantly in Malayalam, in addition to Tamil and Hindi languages. In 2015, he was awarded the J. C. Daniel Award, the highest a ...
(born 1948), Malayali Indian film director
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Sasi (director)
Sasidharan known as Sasi is an Indian film director and screenwriter working primarily in Tamil cinema. He made his directorial debut with ''Sollamale'' in 1998, followed by a series of successful romance films like ''Roja Kootam'' (2002), ''Dish ...
(born 1968), director of Tamil films
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Sasi Shanker
Sasi Shanker (1957 – 10 August 2016) was an Indian film director. He directed a total of twelve films including ten Malayalam films and two Tamil films. He won the National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues in 1993 for his direc ...
(1957–2016), director of Tamil and Malayali films
*A nickname for Indian chess Grandmaster
Krishnan Sasikiran
Krishnan Sasikiran (Tamil: கிருஷ்ணன் சசிகிரண்; born 7 January 1981) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
He was one of Viswanathan Anand's seconds in the World Chess Championship 2013.
Chess career
Born in Madra ...
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Kimmo Sasi
Kimmo Kalevi Immeri Sasi (21 February 1952 – 16 April 2025) was a Finnish politician and lawyer. A member of the centre-right National Coalition Party, he served as a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1983 until 2015. He served as Minis ...
(1952–2025), Finnish politician and lawyer
Other
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Sasi, Croatia
Sasi is a village located in the municipality of Velika Gorica in Zagreb County, Croatia
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, a village near Velika Gorica
* Sasi, a fraction of the town of
Calatafimi-Segesta
Calatafimi-Segesta, commonly known as simply Calatafimi, is a ''comune'' in the province of Trapani in the Italian region of Sicily. It has 6,019 inhabitants.
The full name of the municipality was created in 1997 and is meant to highlight the pres ...
in
Sicily
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,
Italy
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Sași
The Transylvanian Saxons (; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjer Såksen'' or simply ''Soxen'', singularly ''Sox'' or ''Soax''; Transylvanian Landler: ''Soxn'' or ''Soxisch''; ; seldom ''sași ardeleni/transilvăneni/transilvani''; ) are a people of ...
, the Romanian term for Transylvanian Saxons
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Sasi language, a dialect of ǂʼAmkoe language of Botswana
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Saxons in medieval Serbia Saxons, known as Sasi ( sr-cyr, Саси), migrated to medieval Serbia in the mid-13th century from Hungary. Serbia's mines were developed by the community.
The earliest mention of Saxons in Serbia is from 1253–54, which shows them as an establis ...
, known as ''Sasi''
See also
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SASI (disambiguation) SASI may refer to:
* Shugart Associates System Interface, the first embodiment of what is now known as SCSI
* SASI (software), a student information system developed by Pearson School Systems
* Shiprock Associated Schools, Inc.
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Shashi (disambiguation)
Shashi may refer to:
Places and jurisdictions China
*Shashi City (), Hubei from 1949 to 1994
*Shashi District (), Jingzhou, Hubei (historically, Shashi City) since 1994
** Apostolic Prefecture of Shashi
** Jingmen–Shashi railway, single-track ...
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Sassi Punnu (disambiguation)
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