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Tawa, Edmonton Tawa is a residential neighbourhood in the Mill Woods area of south Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is a newer neighbourhood, with most of the development occurring in the early 1990s. The Grey Nuns Community Hospital is located in the neighbourho ...

, a residential neighbourhood in Edmonton, Canada *

Tawa, New Zealand Tawa is the northernmost suburb within the Wellington city boundary, located roughly 15 km north of Wellington's CBD between Churton Park and Porirua in the North Island of New Zealand. It takes its name from the Tawa (tree), broadleaf tr ...

, a suburb of Wellington **

Tawa AFC Tawa AFC is an association football club in Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand. They currently compete in the Capital 1 run by Capital Football Capital Football is the trading name for the ACT Football Federation Incorporated, the state gover ...

, an association football club ** Tawa College, a coeducational school in Tawa, New Zealand * Tawa, Dahanu, a village in Maharashtra, India *

Tawa River The Tawa River is a tributary of the Narmada River of Central India. Course The Tawa is the Narmada's largest tributary, at 172 km. It rises in the Satpura Range of Betul and flowing north and west, joins the Narmada at the village of Ban ...

, in central India * Tawa, Toowoomba, a heritage-listed house in Queensland, Australia

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Tava A ''tava(h)'' / ''tawa(h)'' (mainly on the Indian subcontinent), ''saj'' (in Arabic), ''sac'' (in Turkish), and other variations, is a metal cooking utensil. The tawa is round and is usually curved: the concave side is used as a wok or frying ...

, also called Tawa(h), a frying pan originating on the Indian subcontinent * Tawa (crater), an impact crater on Rhea *''

Tawa hallae ''Tawa'' (named after the Hopi word for the Puebloan sun god) is a genus of possible basal theropod dinosaurs from the Late Triassic period. The fossil remains of ''Tawa hallae'', the type and only species were found in the Hayden Quarry of Gh ...

'', a dinosaur named after the solar deity of the

Puebloan peoples The Pueblo peoples are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices. Among the currently inhabited Pueblos, Taos, San Ildefonso, Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi are some of the ...

(using the

Hopi The Hopi are Native Americans who primarily live in northeastern Arizona. The majority are enrolled in the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona; however, some Hopi people are enrolled in the Colorado ...

name) *

Tawa (tree) ''Beilschmiedia tawa'', commonly known as the tawa, is a New Zealand broadleaf tree common in the central parts of the country. Tawa is often the dominant canopy tree species in lowland forests in the North Island and the north east of the Sou ...

, after which the New Zealand suburb is named *An early variation on the name of the

Ottawa tribe The Odawa (also Ottawa or Odaawaa ) are an Indigenous North American people who primarily inhabit land in the Eastern Woodlands region, now in jurisdictions of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. Their territory long prec ...

Tawa (mythology) The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries. However, it is difficult to definitively state what all Hopis as a group believe. Like the oral traditions of many other societies, Hopi mythology i ...

, a solar deity in

Hopi mythology The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries. However, it is difficult to definitively state what all Hopis as a group believe. Like the oral traditions of many other societies, Hopi mythology i ...

Bert Marcelo Norberto "Bert" Joya Marcelo Sr. (June 6, 1936 – December 16, 1995) was a Filipino people, Filipino actor, comedian, and television personality. His trademark high-pitched infectious laughter earned him the popular moniker "Tawa", the Tagalo ...

, nicknamed "Tawa", Filipino comedian.

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