Vata

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Vata may refer to:

People

• Vata (noble), 11th-century Hungarian chieftain
• Vata (bishop of Várad), 12th-century Hungarian prelate
• Vata Matanu Garcia, former Angolan football striker
• Fatmir Vata (born 1971), Albanian footballer
• Rudi Vata (born 1969), Albanian footballer and manager

Places

• Vata, Central African Republic
• Vața, a village in Vedea Commune, Argeș County, Romania
• Vața de Jos, a commune in Hunedoara County, Romania, and its village of Vața de Sus

In religion

• Vāta, another name for Vāyu, Hindu deity, lord of the winds, father of Bhima
• A particular Zoroastrian divinity, one half of the pair Vata-Vayu

Other uses

• Vata (beetle), a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae
• Vata pagan uprising, a Hungarian rebellion in 1046
• A dialect of the Dida language spoken in Ivory Coast
• One of the three elemental substances, or doshas, of the Ayurveda discipline of traditional medicine
• Collective of Vatnik, a pejorative term for supporters of the Russian government

See also

• Vatta (disambiguation)

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