Sylvan or Sylvans (from the Latin ''silva'': "forest, woods") may refer to:
Places
United States
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Sylvan, Illinois
Sylvan is a former settlement in Panther Creek Township, Cass County, Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolit ...
, a former settlement
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Sylvan, Wisconsin
Sylvan is a town in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 547 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Bosstown, Sabin, and Sylvan are located within the town. The ghost town of Mill Creek was also located in ...
, a town
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Sylvan (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated area in the town
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Sylvan Township (disambiguation)
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Sylvan Lake (South Dakota)
Sylvan Lake is a lake located in Custer State Park, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, United States. It was created in 1891 when Theodore Reder built a dam (the ''Sylvan Lake Water Dam'') across Sunday Gulch Creek. The lake area offers picnic ...
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Sylvan Pass (Wyoming), a mountain pass in Yellowstone National Park
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Sylvan-Highlands, Portland, Oregon
Sylvan-Highlands is a neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States located on the west side of the West Hills.
History
In 1850, Nathan B. Jones, a pioneer of 1847, settled at the head of Tanner Creek and platted lots for a community he ca ...
, a neighborhood of Portland, Oregon
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West Haven-Sylvan, Oregon, a neighboring unincorporated area
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Sylvan Beach, New York
Sylvan Beach is a village in Oneida County, New York, United States; in the southeastern end of the Town of Vienna. It is twenty-two miles west of Rome. At the 2010 census, the population of Sylvan Beach was 897.
History
Before European explor ...
* Penn's Sylvania (
Penn's Woods), the
Province of Pennsylvania
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn after receiving a land grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania ("Penn's Woods") refers to ...
which was the kernel of
the later state
Canada
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Sylvan Lake (Alberta)
Sylvan Lake is a large lake in central Alberta, Canada. The resort town of Sylvan Lake is established on the shores of the lake, west of the city of Red Deer.
Sylvan Lake is a mesotrophic lake with a total area of , and a maximum depth of . It ...
* Sylvan, a community in the municipality of
North Middlesex, Ontario
North Middlesex is a municipality in Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
The restructured municipality of North Middlesex was incorporated on January 1, 2001. This amalgamation joined five municipalities — the townships of East Williams, West ...
Arts and entertainment
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Sylvan (band)
Sylvan is a German progressive rock band.
History
Kay Söhl and keyboardists Volker Söhl and Matthias Harder founded the band Temporal Temptation in 1990. That summer, the eventual founders of Sylvan first played live — mostly hard rock sun ...
, a German progressive rock band
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Sylvan Whittingham/Mason (songwriter)
Sylvan or Sylvans (from the Latin ''silva'': "forest, woods") may refer to:
Places
United States
* Sylvan, Illinois, a former settlement
* Sylvan, Wisconsin, a town
** Sylvan (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated area in the town
* Sylvan T ...
Singer, Songwriter, Photographer
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Sylvan Esso
Sylvan Esso is an American electronic pop duo from Durham, North Carolina, formed in 2013. The band consists of singer Amelia Meath (born July 2, 1988) and producer Nick Sanborn (born March 8, 1983). They made their debut with the single "Hey ...
, an American indie pop band
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''Sylvan'' (TV series), a Spanish animated series created by Antoni D'ocon
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Sylvan Campaign, a faction in the video game ''Heroes of Might and Magic V''
Names
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Sylvan (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname
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Sylvan Debating Club
The Sylvan Debating Club is a free speech society in which topical issues are discussed. Founded in London in 1868, it meets monthly and employs a traditional motion-based debating format."The Sylvan Debating Club. Mr. Maxse and the Sanctity of C ...
, a free speech society in London
* Sylvan, a Latin adjective meaning of or from the woodland
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Sylvan Learning
Sylvan Learning, Inc. (formerly Sylvan Learning Corporation) consists of franchised and corporate supplemental learning centers which provide personalized instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, study skills, homework support, and test pre ...
, a remedial and enrichment tutoring company
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Sylvans S.C.
Sylvans S.C. is a football club based on the Channel Island of Guernsey. They are affiliated to the Guernsey Football Association and play in the FNB Priaulx League
The Priaulx League is the senior football league on the island of Guernsey, ...
, a football club based on the Channel Island of Guernsey
* another name for
2-methyl furan, a flammable liquid
See also
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519 Sylvania
Sylvania (minor planet designation: 519 Sylvania) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions i ...
, asteroid
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Silvan (disambiguation)
Silvan may refer to:
* Saint Silvan, Christian martyr
* Silvan (illusionist), Italian magician
* Silvan Byggemarked, Danish chain store that sells building materials
* Silvan Elves, woodland elves of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
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Silvania (disambiguation) Silvania may refer to:
* Silvania, Brazil, a municipality in southcentral Goiás state, Brazil
* Silvania, Colombia, a town and municipality in Cundinamarca Department, Colombia
* Silvania County, a designation for Sălaj County, Romania
* Silv ...
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Silvanus (disambiguation)
Silvanus or Sylvanus may refer to:
*Silas (Silvanus), disciple, mentioned in four New Testament epistles
*Silvanus (monk), one of the Desert Fathers
*Silvanus of the Seventy, a traditional figure in Eastern Orthodox tradition assumed to be one of t ...
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Silvanus (mythology)
Silvanus (; meaning "of the woods" in Latin) was a Roman tutelary deity of woods and uncultivated lands. As protector of the forest (''sylvestris deus''), he especially presided over plantations and delighted in trees growing wild.Tibullus II.5. ...
, Roman deity from whom the adjective ''sylvan'' derives
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Sylvain (disambiguation) Sylvain is the French form of Silvanus. It may refer to:
People
*Sylvain Archambault, Canadian director
* Sylvain Bied (1965–2011), French footballer and manager
*Sylvain Cappell (born 1946), American mathematician
*Sylvain Chavanel (born 1979) ...
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Sylvania (disambiguation)
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